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CVE-1999-0130

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1996-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd Os: 2.1
• Caldera Network Desktop: 1.0
• Eric Allman Sendmail: 8.7, 8.8, 8.8.1, 8.8.2
• FreeBSD: 2.1.5, 2.1.6
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 10.00, 10.01, 10.10, 10.20
• IBM AIX: 4.2
• RedHat Linux: 4.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/716
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/716

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