CVE-1999-1309: Sendmail

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sendmail before 8.6.7 allows local users to gain root access via a large value in the debug (-d) command line option.

Affected products

• Sendmail Sendmail: up to and including 8.6.7

Published 1996-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.