High
mailutils — security advisory
maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.
- Products
- mailutils
- Affected versions
- 1:2.99.98-1, 1:2.99.98-1.1, 1:2.99.98-2build2, 1:2.99.99-1ubuntu1, 1:2.99.99-1ubuntu2, 1:3.1.1-1, 1:3.11.1-5build1, 1:3.13-1, 1:3.14-1, 1:3.16-1, 1:3.16-1build1, 1:3.17-1, 1:3.17-1.1build2, 1:3.17-1.1build3, 1:3.18-1, 1:3.19-1, 1:3.20-2, 1:3.20-3, 1:3.20-3build1, 1:3.21-1, 1:3.3-1, 1:3.4-1, 1:3.6-1build1, 1:3.7-1, 1:3.7-2, 1:3.7-2.1, 1:3.7-2ubuntu1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-18862
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18862
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Complete source record
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"https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS",
"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18862"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2019-18862",
"evidence": "/upstream"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 353726,
"published_at": "2019-11-11T16:15:00+00:00"
}