CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
David Watson reports a symlink vulnerability in getmail.
If run as root (not the recommended mode of operation), a
local user may be able to cause getmail to write files in
arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on subdirectories
of the maildir.