CVE-2003-0285

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

IBM AIX 5.2 and earlier distributes Sendmail with a configuration file (sendmail.cf) with the (1) promiscuous_relay, (2) accept_unresolvable_domains, and (3) accept_unqualified_senders features enabled, which allows Sendmail to be used as an open mail relay for sending spam e-mail.

IBM AIX 5.2 and earlier distributes Sendmail with a configuration file (sendmail.cf) with the (1) promiscuous_relay, (2) accept_unresolvable_domains, and (3) accept_unqualified_senders features enabled, which allows Sendmail to be used as an open mail relay for sending spam e-mail.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2003-06-16 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX

References

20030513 AIX sendmail open relay

http://security.sdsc.edu/advisories/2003.05.13-AIX-sendmail.txt

Vendor Advisory

VU#814617

US Government Resource

7580

aix-sendmail-mail-relay(11993)

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