SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-1173

Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages that exhaust the stack during the recursive mime8to7 function for performing 8-bit to 7-bit conversion, which prevents…

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 5.27%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages that exhaust the stack during the recursive mime8to7 function for performing 8-bit to 7-bit conversion, which prevents Sendmail from delivering queued messages and might lead to disk consumption by core dump files.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
5.27% probability · 92th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
sendmail/sendmail
Source
cret@cert.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.