CVE-2001-0714

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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, without the RestrictQueueRun option enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (data loss) by (1) setting a high initial message hop count option (-h), which causes Sendmail to drop queue entries, (2) via the -qR option, or (3) via the -qS option.

Affected products

Sendmail: through 8.12.1

References

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

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