CVE-1999-1580

High CVSS 7.2

Published 1995-08-23 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1580, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

SunOS sendmail 5.59 through 5.65 uses popen to process a forwarding host argument, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable and passing crafted values to the -oR option.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1580

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C