CVE-2001-0894 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, w)
Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.
| CVE ID | CVE-2001-0894 |
|---|---|
| Severity | MEDIUM |
| CVSS score | 5.0 |
| CVSS vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2001-11-11 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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