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.
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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 2.0 | LOW |
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1.9 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
redhat
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— | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/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:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sendmail/2001-q2/0001.html | |
| http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm8120.html | Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html | |
| http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6633.php | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/187127 | Vendor Advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2794 | Patch Vendor Advisory |