CVE-2017-5899
HIGH 7.0EPSS 1.0%
Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.
- CVSS v3.0
- 7.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0
- 6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C - EPSS
- 1.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 61th percentile
- Published
- 2017-03-27
- Updated
- 2024-08-05