CVE-1999-0129 (GCVE-0-1999-0129)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 1999-09-29 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 16:27
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Sendmail allows local users to write to a file and gain group permissions via a .forward or :include: file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
1 reference
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|---|---|
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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