Sendmail vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Sendmail is made by Eric Allman. We track 14 published vulnerabilities in it, across 26 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Sendmail, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Sendmail's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Sendmail flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 16%CVE-1999-0095Critical
The debug command in Sendmail is enabled, allowing attackers to execute commands as root.
- 8.8%CVE-1999-0204Critical
Sendmail 8.6.9 allows remote attackers to execute root commands, using ident.
- 3.1%CVE-1999-0047Critical
MIME conversion buffer overflow in sendmail versions 8.8.3 and 8.8.4.
- 2.4%CVE-1999-0393Medium
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Sendmail 8.8.x and 8.9.2 by sending messages with a large number of headers.
- 2.1%CVE-1999-0203Critical
In Sendmail, attackers can gain root privileges via SMTP by specifying an improper "mail from" address and an invalid "rcpt to" address that would cause the mail to bounce to a program.
- 1.9%CVE-1999-0206Critical
MIME buffer overflow in Sendmail 8.8.0 and 8.8.1 gives root access.
- 1.8%CVE-2000-0319Medium
mail.local in Sendmail 8.10.x does not properly identify the .\n string which identifies the end of message text, which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or corrupt mailboxes via a message line...
- 1.3%CVE-1999-0205Medium
Denial of service in Sendmail 8.6.11 and 8.6.12.
- 1.1%CVE-1999-0130High
Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.
- 1.0%CVE-1999-0145High
Sendmail WIZ command enabled, allowing root access.
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The debug command in Sendmail is enabled, allowing attackers to execute commands as root.
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We track 14 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Sendmail, across 26 versions.
None of Sendmail's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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