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CVE-2001-0653

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6 EPSS 1.18%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2001-09-20 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.6. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2001-0653
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.6
EPSS
1.18%

Original NVD Description

Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number.