CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-0285
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-06-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ibm aix (<= 5.2)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105284689228961&w=2 marc.info
- http://security.sdsc.edu/advisories/2003.05.13-AIX-sendmail.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/814617 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7580 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11993 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105284689228961&w=2 marc.info
- http://security.sdsc.edu/advisories/2003.05.13-AIX-sendmail.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/814617 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7580 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11993 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com