Signal handler race condition in Sendmail 8.13.x before 8.13.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering timeouts in a way that causes the setjmp and longjmp function calls to be interrupted and modify unexpected memory locations.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-0058 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.7/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 58.99%, 98th percentile). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2051 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-07-21 | 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 | 2025-08-10 | 69.05% | 58.99% | -10.06% |
| 2 | 2025-07-30 | 71.01% | 69.05% | -1.96% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 71.01% | — |
Full EPSS history (9 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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4.9 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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high | CVE-2006-0058 high 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-2006-0058 |
gentoo
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high | CVE-2006-0058: 1 GLSA(s) (200603-21), 1 atom(s) (mail-mta/sendmail); latest impact high. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2006-0058 |
redhat
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critical | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-0058 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2006-0058 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sendmail), 5 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, upstream): released 4, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-0058 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| sendmail | sendmail | 8.13.0 | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| sendmail | sendmail | 8.13.1 | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| sendmail | sendmail | 8.13.2 | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| sendmail | sendmail | 8.13.3 | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| sendmail | sendmail | 8.13.4 | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| sendmail | sendmail | 8.13.5 | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |