Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0713

Title: Sendmail -C custom config privilege escalation via malformed arguments

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0713.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 30, 2001
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.33%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

E
eric_allman 1
M
metainfo 1
S
sendmail 1
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7192.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3377 http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7192.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3377
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0713 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.