Vulnerability in Sendmail

CVE-2001-1349

Sendmail before 8.11.4, and 8.12.0 before 8.12.0.Beta10, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly corrupt the heap and gain privileges via race conditions in signal handlers.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (33.7th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 33.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2001-1349: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Sendmail — versions 8.10, 8.10.1, 8.10.2

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2001-1349?
CVE-2001-1349 is a vulnerability in Sendmail. Published 2001-05-28.
Is CVE-2001-1349 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.