PT-2019-15707 · Gnu+1 · Gnu Mailutils+1

Published 2019-11-11 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2019-18862

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Mailutils versions prior to 3.8

Description The issue allows local privilege escalation in the url mode when maidag in GNU Mailutils is installed setuid.

Recommendations For GNU Mailutils versions prior to 3.8, update to version 3.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-2883

ALT-PU-2020-2927

CVE-2019-18862

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11035-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gnu Mailutils

References · 13

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/47703 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-18862 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18862 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-18862 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18862 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18862 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-18862 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11035-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18862 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-12 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18862 · Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.html · Note