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CVE-2017-5899
HIGH · CVSS 7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-27T15:59:00.497 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:21:24.287

Summary

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

s-nail_project — s-nail

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References

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