CVE-2014-3956

lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.006 · 50 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.64% (50th) EPSS

CVSS 1.9 · low

Is it mine?

58 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The sm_close_on_exec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FD_CLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program.

cvss

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

1.9

010

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

v2.01.9lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 2.9

v2.01.9lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.01.6lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USprimaryCWE-200US

affected products (58)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Sendmail Inc. SendMail SMTP Server8.0 → 8.14.9fstec_bduRU
fedoraproject fedora= 20nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd≤ 9.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hpux≤ b.11.31nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hp:hpux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail≤ 8.14.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.10.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.10.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.10.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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= 8.11.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.11.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sendmail sendmail= 8.12.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-06-04modified 2026-06-17

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references (33)

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