- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.98%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Sendmail WIZ command enabled, allowing root access.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Published
- 24 years later
· 24 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.98% · top 37% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- CA-1990-11 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 19950206 sendmail wizard thing... (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- CA-1993-14 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it (opens in a new tab)technical-descriptionx_refsource_FARMERVENEMAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190605 Re: CVE-2019-10149: Exim 4.87 to 4.91: possible remote exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190606 Re: CVE-2019-10149: Exim 4.87 to 4.91: possible remote exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20190611 The Return of the WIZard: RCE in Exim (CVE-2019-10149) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-1999-0145 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-1999-0145)Record last updated .