Vulnerability in Sendmail
CVE-2009-4565
sendmail before 8.14.4 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which (1) allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers via a crafted server certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, and (2) allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.024 (83.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Sendmail — versions 2.6, 2.6.1, 3.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/38314 (third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-30.xml (vendor-advisory)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/39088 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3661 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37998 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/37543 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0415 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/43366 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)