CVE-1999-0131 describes a buffer overflow and denial of service vulnerability in Sendmail versions 8.7.5 and earlier, specifically impacting the GECOS field, which grants root access to local users on various operating systems including BSDi, Digital, FreeBSD, HP, IBM, RedHat, and SCO. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability is severe, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:sendmail:8.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.