Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all sendmail-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Historical issues mainly involve vendor risk buffer overflow and vendor risk path handling and related problems; some flaws may lead to vendor impact unexpected behavior, affecting vendor surface software deployment scenarios.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2002-1827 | Sendmail 8.9.0 through 8.12.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service by obtaining an exclusive lock on the (1) alias, (2) map, (3) statistics, and (4) pid files. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.93% | 2002-12-31 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2002-1165 | 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. | [email protected] | 4.6 | 1.14% | 2002-10-11 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2002-0906 | Buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.12.5, when configured to use a custom DNS map to query TXT records, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious DNS server. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 4.41% | 2002-10-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2001-0715 | Sendmail before 8.12.1, without the RestrictQueueRun option enabled, allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information about the mail queue by setting debugging flags to enable debug mode. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.41% | 2001-10-30 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2001-0714 | 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. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.29% | 2001-10-30 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2001-0713 | Sendmail before 8.12.1 does not properly drop privileges when the -C option is used to load custom configuration files, which allows local users to gain privileges via malformed arguments in the configuration file whose names contain characters with the high bit set, such as (1) macro names that are one character long, (2) a variable setting which is processed by the setoption function, or (3) a Modifiers setting which is processed by the getmodifiers function. | [email protected] | 4.6 | 0.33% | 2001-10-30 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2001-0653 | Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number. | [email protected] | 4.6 | 1.18% | 2001-09-20 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2001-1349 | 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. | [email protected] | 3.7 | 0.42% | 2001-05-28 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-1999-1592 | Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in sendmail 5, as installed on Sun SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4, have unspecified attack vectors and impact. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-1999-0129. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 0.99% | 1999-12-31 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-1999-1109 | Sendmail before 8.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a series of ETRN commands then disconnecting from the server, while Sendmail continues to process the commands after the connection has been terminated. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 7.17% | 1999-12-22 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-1999-0478 | Denial of service in HP-UX sendmail 8.8.6 related to accepting connections. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 1.40% | 1998-12-01 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-1999-1309 | Sendmail before 8.6.7 allows local users to gain root access via a large value in the debug (-d) command line option. | [email protected] | 7.2 | 0.44% | 1996-08-30 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-1999-1580 | SunOS sendmail 5.59 through 5.65 uses popen to process a forwarding host argument, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable and passing crafted values to the -oR option. | [email protected] | 7.2 | 1.11% | 1995-08-23 | 2026-06-16 |