| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-1999-0769 (CCN-3335) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 1999-08-25 | ||||||||
| Published: | 1999-08-25 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2008-09-09 | ||||||||
| Summary: | Vixie Cron on Linux systems allows local users to set parameters of sendmail commands via the MAILTO environmental variable. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 9.3 Critical (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 7.2 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-Other | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Privileges | ||||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory CSSA-1999-023.0 serious security problem in cron Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-1999-0769 Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2000-0312 Source: CCN Type: RHSA-1999:030-02 Buffer overflow in cron daemon Source: CCN Type: OpenBSD Security Advisory, August 30, 1999 In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 1061 Vixie Cron MAILTO Sendmail Variable Manipulation Source: BID Type: UNKNOWN 611 Source: CCN Type: BID-611 Vixie Cron MAILTO Sendmail Vulnerability Source: CCN Type: SuSE Security Announcement #15 cron-3.0.1-75 (Vixie Cron) and previous versions Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN cron-sendmail-root(3335) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration 2: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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