CVE-2001-1349

Exp

Sendmail before 8.11.4, and 8.12.0 before 8.12.0.Beta10, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly corrupt the heap and gain privileges via race conditions in signal handlers.

Published: 2001-05-28 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2001-1349 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.42%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2001-1349

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2001-1349

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.09% 0.42% +0.33%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.09% +0.05%
3 2023-03-07 0.04%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2001-1349

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.7 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
1.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2001-1349

OS Trackers for CVE-2001-1349

vendor priority summary link
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2001-1349

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2001-1349

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sendmail sendmail 8.10 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.10.1 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.10.2 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.11.0 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.11.1 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.11.2 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.11.3 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.12 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2001-1349

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