CVE-1999-1263: Metamail Corporation Metamail

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Metamail Corporation Metamail: up to and including 2.7

Published 2003-08-15. Last modified 2026-09-25.