CVE-2019-18862: GNU Mailutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• GNU Mailutils: before 3.8 (fixed in 3.8)

Published 2019-11-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.