Security Advisory

CVE-1999-0203

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2000-04-25 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 16:27:57
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Sendmail, attackers can gain root privileges via SMTP by specifying an improper "mail from" address and an invalid "rcpt to" address that would cause the mail to bounce to a program.