CVE-1999-0130 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Sendmail, allowing local users to gain root access by starting the daemon in a specific mode. This flaw impacts various operating systems including BSDI, Caldera, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on CISA's KEV catalog or actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, demonstrating its potential for abuse.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:caldera:network_desktop:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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