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critical 10.0

CVE-2003-0694 in the critical feed json

The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated usin…

published 2003-09-18 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0685

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
66.2%
EPSS 66.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated using the parseaddr function in parseaddr.c.

Patch / fix

  • sendmail Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8.12.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0694

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-0694 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:284
  • Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:283
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:284

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/dos/smtp/sendmail_prescan)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

66.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.