CVE-2001-0713

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

Sendmail: through 8.12.1

References

http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7192.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3377
http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7192.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3377

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