CVE-1999-0769 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Vixie Cron on various Linux distributions, including Caldera, Debian, and RedHat. Attackers can manipulate the MAILTO environmental variable to execute arbitrary sendmail commands, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation is noted, exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this high-severity (CVSS 7.2) flaw.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0_pl1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paul_vixie:vixie_cron:3.0_pl1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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.