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CVE-2002-1337
Buffer overflow in Sendmail 5.79 to 8.12.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain formatted address fields, related…
High10.0EPSS 72.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in Sendmail 5.79 to 8.12.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain formatted address fields, related to sender and recipient header comments as processed by the crackaddr function of headers.c.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.6% · top 0.6% 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: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (21)
- RHSA-2003:073 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- IY40501 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 20030303 Fwd: APPLE-SA-2003-03-03 sendmail (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:227 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 6991 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#398025 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.8.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-257 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20030304 [LSD] Technical analysis of the remote sendmail vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2222 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- CA-2003-07 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20030303 sendmail 8.12.8 available (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MDKSA-2003:028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- IY40500 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- sendmail-header-processing-bo(10748) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- CLA-2003:571 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- HPSBUX0302-246 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 20030303 Remote Sendmail Header Processing Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISSx_transferred
- IY40502 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 20030304 GLSA: sendmail (200303-4) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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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