CVE-1999-0565 represents a critical vulnerability in Sendmail configurations where specific aliases allow input to be piped to programs, potentially facilitating arbitrary command execution. This issue holds a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, signifying that an unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit the flaw with low complexity to achieve a complete compromise of system confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite the high theoretical risk, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation in the wild, no known public exploit code in major repositories, and no significant community discussion surrounding this legacy vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | n/aCNA affected |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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