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HistoryFeb 07, 2017 - 9:22 a.m.

CVE-2017-5899

2017-02-0709:22:31
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0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.9%

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.