{"cve":"CVE-2019-15900","nvd":{"published":"2019-10-18T16:15:10.257","modified":"2026-06-17T02:21:17.630","status":"Modified","description":"An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD. On platforms without strtonum(3), sscanf was used without checking for error cases. Instead, the uninitialized variable errstr was checked and in some cases returned success even if sscanf failed. The result was that, instead of reporting that the supplied username or group name did not exist, it would execute the command as root.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-252","CWE-754","CWE-863","CWE-908"],"references":["https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/2f83222829448e5bc4c9391d607ec265a1e06531","https://github.com/slicer69/doas/compare/6.1p1...6.2","https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/2f83222829448e5bc4c9391d607ec265a1e06531","https://github.com/slicer69/doas/compare/6.1p1...6.2"],"products":["doas_project:doas"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:59:10.855360465+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2019-15900","score":0.02109,"percentile":0.81781,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}