CVE-1999-0130
CVSS 2.0 Score 7.2 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Nov 16, 1996
Updated: Nov 20, 2024
Summary
CVE-1999-0130 is a vulnerability affecting the Sendmail mail transfer agent. It permits local users to initiate Sendmail in daemon mode, exploiting a weakness in its setuid permissions. Successful exploitation grants the attacker root privileges, compromising the entire system. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running Sendmail and requires immediate attention and patching to mitigate potential threats.
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Affected Products
- HP-UX family of operating systems
- FreeBSD
- IBM AIX
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Affected Vendors
- IBM Corporation
- Red Hat
- FreeBSD Project
- HP