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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 11, 2019· Updated Aug 5, 2024

CVE-2019-18862

CVE-2019-18862

Description

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

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Affected products

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GNU/Mailutilsdescription
GNU/Mailutilsllm-fuzzy
Range: <3.8
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/mailutils&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 3.8-8.8

Patches

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References

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security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-12mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWSmitrex_refsource_MISC

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