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CVE-1999-0163

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1997-01-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

In older versions of Sendmail, an attacker could use a pipe character to execute root commands.

Affected products

• Eric Allman Sendmail: all versions

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0163
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0163

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