Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0714

Title: Sendmail queue run options DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0714.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 30, 2001
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.29%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

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

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20011101-01-I http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20011101-01-I http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_sm812.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0714 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.