CVE-2002-1165

Exp

Sendmail Consortium's Restricted Shell (SMRSH) in Sendmail 8.12.6, 8.11.6-15, and possibly other versions after 8.11 from 5/19/1998, allows attackers to bypass the intended restrictions of smrsh by inserting additional commands after (1) "||" sequences or (2) "/" characters, which are not properly filtered or verified.

Published: 2002-10-11 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2002-1165 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.14%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2002-1165

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
21884 exploit_db edb 2002-10-01 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-1165

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 2026-04-25 1.54% 1.14% -0.40%
2 2026-04-11 2.90% 1.54% -1.36%
3 2025-07-30 — 2.90% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-1165

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.6 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/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:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
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.
 3.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-1165

OS Trackers for CVE-2002-1165

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2002-1165 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sendmail), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2002-1165
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2002-1165
ubuntu medium CVE-2002-1165 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sendmail), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2002-1165

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-1165

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sendmail sendmail 8.12.0 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.12.1 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.12.2 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.12.3 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.12.4 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.12.5 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail 8.12.6 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd 1.5 cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd 1.5.1 cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd 1.5.2 cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd 1.5.3 cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd 1.6 cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-1165

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