Sendmail vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Sendmail has 33 published vulnerabilities across 10 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Sendmail, with 33. If you run Sendmail software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Sendmail products have the most vulnerabilities?

Sendmail leads with 33 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

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.

Exploit likelihood

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.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 73%

    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...

    CVSS10.0Published7 Mar 2003
  2. 66%

    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.

    CVSS10.0Published6 Oct 2003
  3. 39%

    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...

    CVSS10.0Published2 Apr 2003
  4. 29%

    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...

    CVSS7.6Published22 Mar 2006
  5. 13%

    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.

    CVSS5.0Published5 May 2009
  6. 7.2%

    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...

    CVSS5.0Published22 Dec 1999
  7. 5.3%

    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...

    CVSS5.0Published7 Jun 2006
  8. 4.5%

    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.

    CVSS7.5Published29 Aug 2006
  9. 4.4%

    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...

    CVSS7.5Published4 Oct 2002
Every product

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9 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 33 published vulnerabilities across 10 products and 101 versions from Sendmail.

None of Sendmail's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Sendmail, with 33 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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