CVE-2001-0713

MediumCVSS 4.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Oct 30, 2001
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2001-0713: Medium severity, CVSS 4.6 | Vulnix