Security readout for executives and security teams
This is an old local privilege-escalation issue in Pine mail client versions before 3.94. A local user could abuse how Pine handled a mail lockfile when new mail arrived. Business risk is mainly for legacy Unix-style systems still running very old Pine builds with local user accounts. Exposure is likely limited to legacy systems running Pine earlier than 3.94, especially multi-user Unix/Linux hosts where untrusted local users can log in and receive mail through Pine-managed workflows. Prioritize as a legacy hygiene and hardening task. It is not cited as actively exploited, but affected systems represent avoidable privilege-escalation risk if old multi-user mail hosts still exist. Mitigation focus: Inventory systems for Pine installations and recorded versions.; Remove Pine where it is no longer operationally required.; Upgrade any Pine version earlier than 3.94..
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- pine-tmpfile(416)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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