PT-2004-1895 · Sendmail · Sendmail

Hugo Espuny · Published 2004-11-19 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-0833

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Sendmail versions prior to 8.12.3

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to use Sendmail as an open mail relay and send spam messages due to a fixed username and password in the Sendmail configuration script when using sasl and sasl-bin.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 8.12.3, update to version 8.12.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0833

DSA-554-1

Affected Products

Sendmail

References · 8

• http://debian.org/security/2004/dsa-554 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0833 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-0833 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0833 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/11262 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2004-0833 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12667 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17531 · Note