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CVE-2001-0713

N/A

Published: October 12, 2001 at 04:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:54 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorSendmail

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.3%

Description

Sendmail before 8.12.1 does not properly drop privileges when the -C option is used to load custom configuration files, which allows local users to gain privileges via malformed arguments in the configuration file whose names contain characters with the high bit set, such as (1) macro names that are one character long, (2) a variable setting which is processed by the setoption function, or (3) a Modifiers setting which is processed by the getmodifiers function.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Sendmail · Sendmail

95%

v ≤ 8.12.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html

References (3)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_BINDVIEW

Source: [email protected]

http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_XF

Source: [email protected]

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7192.php

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3377

CVSS

4.6MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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