{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5899 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-5899 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-5899 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-5899 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5899 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5899/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5899/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-5899","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5899/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-5899","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5899","GHSA-42jr-32cj-2c5c","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5899","USN-4820-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"S-nail mail client","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit a directory traversal flaw in the S-nail setuid helper to write arbitrary files and gain root privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"s-nail","vendor":"s-nail_project"}],"cvss":{"score":7,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"},{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2019-01-13","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2019-01-13","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"47172","stars":null,"title":"S-nail \u003c 14.8.16 - Local Privilege Escalation"}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5899","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5900"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5898"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2017-03-27","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can exploit a directory traversal flaw in the S-nail setuid helper to write arbitrary files and gain root privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5899/"}