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CVE-2002-1827

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1827 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Sendmail versions 8.9.0 through 8.12.3. Local users can exploit this by obtaining exclusive locks on critical Sendmail files, including alias, map, statistics, and pid files. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial impact on availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21476 · May 24, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0093 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/274033
iss.net / security_center/static/9162.php
securityfocus.com / bid/4822
Exploit
sendmail.org / LockingAdvisory.txt
Vendor Advisory