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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-1999-0130 json

Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.

published 1996-11-16 29 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0130

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-19556)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19556 BSD 2 / CND 1 / Sendmail 8.x / FreeBSD 2.1.x / HP-UX 10.x / AIX 4 / RedHat 4 - Sendmail Daemon local, 1996-11-16

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.