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CVE-1999-1309

• 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: 1996-08-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Sendmail before 8.6.7 allows local users to gain root access via a large value in the debug (-d) command line option.

Affected products

• Sendmail: through 8.6.7

References

• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-94.12.sendmail.vulnerabilities
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0040.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0042.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0043.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0048.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0078.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7155
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-94.12.sendmail.vulnerabilities
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0040.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0042.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0043.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0048.html

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