Sendmail vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Sendmail is made by Sendmail. We track 33 published vulnerabilities listed under that exact name, across 71 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. Sendmail lists newer releases under their own names, such as Sendmail Switch, so check those pages too.
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Is Sendmail listed under other names? Yes.
Sendmail also lists Sendmail under more specific names, such as Sendmail Switch and Sendmail Pro. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. If you run one of these, open its page for its own exploited flaws.
Which Sendmail vulnerabilities are being exploited?
This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.
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.
- 73%CVE-2002-1337Critical
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...
- 66%CVE-2003-0694Critical
The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated using the parseaddr function in parseaddr.c.
- 39%CVE-2003-0161Critical
The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail before 8.12.9 does not properly handle certain conversions from char and int types, which can cause a length check to be disabled when Sendmail...
- 29%CVE-2006-0058High
Signal handler race condition in Sendmail 8.13.x before 8.13.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering timeouts in a way that causes the setjmp and longjmp function calls to be interrupted and...
- 13%CVE-2009-1490Medium
Heap-based buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.13.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X- header, as demonstrated by an X-Testing header.
- 7.2%CVE-1999-1109Medium
Sendmail before 8.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a series of ETRN commands then disconnecting from the server, while Sendmail continues to process the commands after the...
- 5.3%CVE-2006-1173Medium
Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages that exhaust the stack during the recursive mime8to7 function for performing 8-bit to...
- 4.5%CVE-2006-4434High
Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8.13.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long "header line", which causes a previously freed variable to be referenced.
- 4.4%CVE-2002-0906High
Buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.12.5, when configured to use a custom DNS map to query TXT records, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious DNS...
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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.
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We track 33 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Sendmail, across 71 versions.
None of Sendmail's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
Sendmail also lists Sendmail under more specific names, such as Sendmail Switch and Sendmail Pro. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. Open the release you run to see its own list.
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