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CVE-2005-2070: sendmail

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2005-2070
Published 29-06-2005Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2005-2070 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in sendmail. EPSS estimates a 1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.66%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-737-1DTSA-3-1

Timeline

  1. 29-06-2005
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.66%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

76%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.66% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.66%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • clamav< 0.86.1
Sendmail1 product
  • sendmail8.8.8 | 8.9.0 | 8.9.1 | 8.9.2 | 8.9.3 | 8.10 | 8.10.1 | 8.10.2 | 8.11.0 | 8.11.1 | 8.11.2 | 8.11.3 | 8.11.4 | 8.11.5 | 8.11.6 | 8.11.7 | 8.12:beta10 | 8.12:beta12 | 8.12:beta16 | 8.12:beta5 | 8.12:beta7 | 8.12.0 | 8.12.1 | 8.12.2 | 8.12.3 | 8.12.4 | 8.12.5 | 8.12.6 | 8.12.7 | 8.12.8 | 8.12.9 | 8.12.10 | 8.12.11

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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