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CVE-2019-18862

Published: 11 November 2019

maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.

Notes

AuthorNote
ebarretto
According to Debian:
/usr/sbin/maidag not installed suid root on Debian

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
mailutils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Needed

jammy Needed

impish Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Needed

disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needed

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Needed

upstream Needs triage

mantic Needed

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needed)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H