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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.