CVE-1999-1580

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

23/08/1995

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

SunOS sendmail 5.59 through 5.65 uses popen to process a forwarding host argument, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable and passing crafted values to the -oR option.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:5.59:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:5.61:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:5.65:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3c:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3u1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.4jl:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:5.59:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:5.61:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:5.65:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3c:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3u1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.4jl:::::::*

CVE-1999-1580

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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