CVE-1999-0203Critical· 10.0▾ MidnightIn Sendmail, attackers can gain root privileges via SMTP by specifying an improper "mail from" address and an invalid "rcpt to" address that would cause the mail to bounce to a program.
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 55 · likelihood 0.4 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 4.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
2.1%
2.1% → 2.1%
In Sendmail, attackers can gain root privileges via SMTP by specifying an improper "mail from" address and an invalid "rcpt to" address that would cause the mail to bounce to a program.
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