Vulnerability CVE-2019-18862
Published: 2019-11-11

Description:
maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
GNU Mailutils 3.7 Privilege Escalation
Mike Gualtieri
21.11.2019

Type:

CWE-269

 (Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Mailutils 

 References:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS
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