CVE-2001-0653: sendmail
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Vulnerability summary
CVE-2001-0653 is a medium (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability in sendmail. EPSS estimates a 1.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of scored vulnerabilities. 5 public exploits are recorded.
Timeline
- 09-03-2002PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 08-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
1.18%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
67%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.18% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
5 foundExploit Reference (securityfocus.com)
Maturity: unknown
Sendmail 8.11/8.12 Debugger - Arbitrary Code Execution (1)
Maturity: weaponized
Sendmail 8.11/8.12 Debugger - Arbitrary Code Execution (2)
Maturity: weaponized
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Sendmail1 product
- sendmail8.11.0 | 8.11.1 | 8.11.2 | 8.11.3 | 8.11.4 | 8.11.5 | 8.12:beta10 | 8.12:beta12 | 8.12:beta16 | 8.12:beta5 | 8.12:beta7
1 vendor · 1 product
References
12 links- www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-032.0.txtVendor AdvisoryX Refsource CALDERA
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- www.sendmail.org/8.11.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM