CVE-2002-1165

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Sendmail Consortium's Restricted Shell (SMRSH) in Sendmail 8.12.6, 8.11.6-15, and possibly other versions after 8.11 from 5/19/1998, allows attackers to bypass the intended restrictions of smrsh by inserting additional commands after (1) "||" sequences or (2) "/" characters, which are not properly filtered or verified.

Sendmail Consortium's Restricted Shell (SMRSH) in Sendmail 8.12.6, 8.11.6-15, and possibly other versions after 8.11 from 5/19/1998, allows attackers to bypass the intended restrictions of smrsh by inserting additional commands after (1) "||" sequences or (2) "/" characters, which are not properly filtered or verified.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-10-11 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:24:00

Affected Software

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.0

8.12.0

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.1

8.12.1

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.2

8.12.2

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.3

8.12.3

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.4

8.12.4

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.5

8.12.5

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.6

8.12.6

NetBSD 1.5

1.5

NetBSD 1.5.1

1.5.1

NetBSD 1.5.2

1.5.2

NetBSD 1.5.3

1.5.3

NetBSD 1.6

1.6

References

NetBSD-SA2002-023

CLA-2002:532

20021001 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 10.01.02: Sendmail smrsh bypass vulnerabilities

7826

sendmail-forward-bypass-smrsh(10232)

Vendor Advisory

MDKSA-2002:083

RHSA-2003:073

5845

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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