A vulnerability was found in Sendmail (Mail Server Software) (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument -bt with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 01/01/2001. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10809 (Sendmail < 8.11.2 -bt Option Local Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SMTP problems and running in the context r.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (10809).

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• Mail Server Software

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• Sendmail

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• open-source

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