CVE-2001-0714 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2001-10-12

Score: 2.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-0700	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0006.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20011101-01-I
http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html

History

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Subscriptions

Sendmail Sendmail

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-10-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:30:06.105Z

Reserved: 2001-09-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0714

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-10-30T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0714

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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