Vulnerability in Sendmail

CVE-2005-2070

The ClamAV Mail fILTER (clamav-milter) 0.84 through 0.85d, when used in Sendmail using long timeouts, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by keeping an open connection, which prevents ClamAV from reloading.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (75.8th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.8% 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-2005-2070: held from 0.017 to 0.017.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Sendmail — versions 8.8.8, 8.9.0, 8.9.1

References