Fixed username and password vulnerability in Sendmail allows remote attackers to use as open mail relay

Fixed username and password vulnerability in Sendmail allows remote attackers to use as open mail relay

CVE-2004-0833 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Sendmail before 8.12.3 on Debian GNU/Linux, when using sasl and sasl-bin, uses a Sendmail configuration script with a fixed username and password, which could allow remote attackers to use Sendmail as an open mail relay and send spam messages.

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