CVE-2019-18862

HIGH 7.8CVE-2019-18862 · Published 11/11/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-18862 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting mailutils (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 67.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.8 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mailutils gnu	`< 3.8`	`3.8`

maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.

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Affected versions

Patched versions

< 3.8

3.8

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