Vulnerability record · CVE-2007-2246 · published 25 April 2007

CVE-2007-2246: Sendmail vulnerability

Sendmail · Sendmail

Unspecified vulnerability in HP-UX B.11.00 and B.11.11, when running sendmail 8.9.3 or 8.11.1; and HP-UX B.11.23 when running sendmail 8.11.1; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown attack vectors. NOTE: due to the lack of details from HP, it is not known whether this issue is a duplicate of another CVE such as CVE-2006-1173 or CVE-2006-4434.

7.8 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 2.3% · top 17.2% CWE-399 · CWE-399

7.8CVSS 2.0 base score

2.3%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

12References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Sendmail Sendmail

References

Link	Tags
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00841370
http://secunia.com/advisories/24990	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/349305	US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23606
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017966
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1504	Vendor Advisory
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00841370
http://secunia.com/advisories/24990	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/349305	US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23606
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017966
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1504	Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2007-2246), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.