CVE-2017-5899

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5899
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5899.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5899
Downstream
Published
2017-03-27T15:59:00.497Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:23:04.832337Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.8.5"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5899.json"