CVE-2001-0714: Sendmail

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sendmail before 8.12.1, without the RestrictQueueRun option enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (data loss) by (1) setting a high initial message hop count option (-h), which causes Sendmail to drop queue entries, (2) via the -qR option, or (3) via the -qS option.

Affected products

• Sendmail Sendmail: up to and including 8.12.1

Published 2001-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.