Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-1490

Title: Sendmail RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2009-1490

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date May 05, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

12.61%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-1490: Heap-based buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.13.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X- header, as demonstrated by an X-Testing header.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/ http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50355 http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/ http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50355

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-1490 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32995

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 05, 2009 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.