NVD

Id
83748  
Name
CVE-2017-5899  
Description
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.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
6.9  
Severity
Medium  
CVSS Base Score
6.9  
CVSS Impact Subscore
10  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
3.4  
CVSS Vector
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)  
Pub Date
2017-04-27  
Published
2017-03-27  
Modified Date
2017-03-31  
Seq
2017-5899  

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