- Description
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-22
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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