CVE-1999-0475 — A race condition in how procmail handles .procmailrc files allows a local user to read arbitrary files available to the user who is running procmail

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A race condition in how procmail handles .procmailrc files allows a local user to read arbitrary files available to the user who is running procmail

Published Sep 29, 1999

1.2

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.32%

Description

A race condition in how procmail handles .procmailrc files allows a local user to read arbitrary files available to the user who is running procmail.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.32% 0.00319

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00319

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	0.32% (0.00319)	22.58th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.31% (0.00309)	22.33th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.18% (0.00178)	37.07th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 3, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Aug 18, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0475
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0475		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 29, 1999

Updated Aug 1, 2024

Reserved Jun 7, 1999

Link CVE-1999-0475

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-1999-0475

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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