CVE-2017-5899
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 1.0%
from disclosure to weapon657 days
Published on NVDMar 27
1st PoC+657d
exploitation probability
1.0%top 41% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1
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