cve-1999-1263
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2002-03-09 05:00
Modified
2024-08-01 17:11
Severity ?
Summary
Metamail before 2.7-7.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an e-mail message containing a uuencoded attachment that specifies the full pathname for the file to be modified, which is processed by uuencode in Metamail scripts such as sun-audio-file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87773365324657&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1677
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87773365324657&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1677
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