CVE-2017-5899

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.0/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Mar 27, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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