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CVE-2001-0653
Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large…
Medium4.6EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- MDKSA-2001:075 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- SuSE-SA:2001:028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- sendmail-debug-signed-int-overflow(7016) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 3163 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- CSSA-2001-032.0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERAx_transferred
- RHSA-2001:106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- IMNX-2001-70-032-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_IMMUNIXx_transferred
- L-133 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- 20010821 *ALERT* UPDATED BID 3163 (URGENCY 6.58): Sendmail Debugger Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (fwd) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- HPSBTL0112-007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- CLA-2001:412 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- http://www.sendmail.org/8.11.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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