Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-0130 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-0130 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-0130?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 16 November 1996.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Sendmail Sendmail.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-0130?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-1999-0130 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-0130?
- Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Sendmail when handled by local users. The flaw allows an unprivileged user to invoke the Sendmail binary with specific flags to start it in daemon mode. Due to improper validation or dropped privileges during this process, the attacker can transition from a standard user account to root privileges. This is a local attack requiring shell access to the target machine. Successful exploitation results in full compromise of the host operating system.
Affected products
- Sendmail Sendmail
Timeline
- 1996-11-16: disclosed