CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0203

Published: Aug 17, 1995 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

10 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0203
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

In Sendmail, attackers can gain root privileges via SMTP by specifying an improper mail from address and an invalid rcpt to address that would cause the mail to bounce to a program.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Sendmail	Eric_allman	8.6.10 (including)	8.6.10 (including)

References

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