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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.09% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 65.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2002-10-03 04:00Z24 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 03:19Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2002-09-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 403366119f9ac66037eaf020f6ea934d06572e59cb10409aa688e933fd4c57f4
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2003:073http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-073.html
- distro.conectiva.com.brCLA-2002:532http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000532
- ftp.netbsd.orgNetBSD-SA2002-023ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-023.txt.asc
- marc.info20021001 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 10.01.02: Sendmail smrsh bypass vulnerabilitieshttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103350914307274&w=2
- www.iss.netsendmail-forward-bypass-smrsh(10232)http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10232.php
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2002:083http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:083
- www.sendmail.orghttp://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt
- www.securityfocus.com5845http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5845
- secunia.com7826http://secunia.com/advisories/7826
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sendmail Fixed in 8.12.3-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sendmail Fixed in 8.12.3-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- sendmail Fixed in 8.12.3-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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