CVE-2001-0653

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.012 · 67 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

4 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

1.18% (67th) EPSS

CVSS 4.6 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.6mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6.4

v2.04.1mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-122USLLM-inferredCWE-269USLLM-inferred

exploits (4)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-21060Sendmail 8.11/8.12 Debugger - Arbitrary Code Execution (1)functional · exploit_db
EDB-21061Sendmail 8.11/8.12 Debugger - Arbitrary Code Execution (2)functional · exploit_db
EDB-21062Sendmail 8.11/8.12 Debugger - Arbitrary Code Execution (3)functional · exploit_db
EDB-21063Sendmail 8.11/8.12 Debugger - Arbitrary Code Execution (4)functional · exploit_db

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
sendmail sendmail= 8.11.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.11.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.11.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.11.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.11.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.11.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2001-09-20modified 2026-06-16

references (24)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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