CVE-2019-18862

Publication date 11 November 2019

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mailutils	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needed
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support, was needed
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

According to Debian: /usr/sbin/maidag not installed suid root on Debian

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H