CVE-1999-1309

Current Description

Sendmail before 8.6.7 allows local users to gain root access via a large value in the debug (-d) command line option.

Basic Data

Published	August 30, 1996
Last Modified	October 10, 2017
Assigner	cve@mitre.org
Data Type	CVE
Data Format	MITRE
Data Version	4.0
Problem Type	NVD-CWE-Other
CVE Data Version	4.0

Base Metric V2

CVSS 2 - Version	2.0
CVSS 2 - Vector String	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS 2 - Access Vector	LOCAL
CVSS 2 - Access Complexity	LOW
CVSS 2 - Authentication	NONE
CVSS 2 - Confidentiality Impact	COMPLETE
CVSS 2 - Availability Impact	COMPLETE
CVSS 2 - Base Score	7.2
Severity	HIGH
Exploitability Score	3.9
Impact Score	10.0
Obtain All Privilege	true
Obtain User Privilege	false
Obtain Other Privilege	false

Base Metric V3

No data provided.

Configurations

OR - Configuration 1

Cpe Version	Part	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	SW Edition	Target SW	Target HW	Other	Version Start Including	Version End Including	Version Start Excluding	Version End Excluding
2.3	Application	Sendmail	Sendmail	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*		8.6.7

Vulnerable Software List

Vendor	Product	Versions
Sendmail	Sendmail	*

References

Name	Source	URL	Tags
CA-1994-12	http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-94.12.sendmail.vulnerabilities	CERT	Patch Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
19940314 sendmail -d problem (OLD yet still here)	http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0040.html	BUGTRAQ	Vendor Advisory
19940315 anyone know details?	http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0042.html	BUGTRAQ	Vendor Advisory
19940315 so...	http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0043.html	BUGTRAQ
19940315 Security problem in sendmail versions 8.x.x	http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0048.html	BUGTRAQ	Vendor Advisory
19940327 sendmail exploit script - resend	http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0078.html	BUGTRAQ
sendmail-debug-gain-root(7155)	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7155	XF