CVE-1999-0769
vixie_cron - Command Injection via MAILTO Environmental Variable
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-0769. PoCs published by Olaf Kirch.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a vulnerability in Vixie Cron where the MAILTO environment variable is passed unsanitized to sendmail, allowing arbitrary command-line arguments to be injected. By setting a malicious MAILTO value and a custom sendmail configuration file, an attacker can execute commands as root.
Description
Vixie Cron on Linux systems allows local users to set parameters of sendmail commands via the MAILTO environmental variable.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a vulnerability in Vixie Cron where the MAILTO environment variable is passed unsanitized to sendmail, allowing arbitrary command-line arguments to be injected. By setting a malicious MAILTO value and a custom sendmail configuration file, an attacker can execute commands as root.