CVE-2023-51765

sendmail through 8.17.2 allows SMTP smuggling in certain configurations. Remote attackers can use a published exploitation technique to inject e-mail messages with a spoofed MAIL FROM address, allowing bypass of an SPF protection mechanism. This occurs because sendmail supports . but some other popular e-mail servers do not. This is resolved in 8.18 and later versions with o in srv_features.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.

Affected Software

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/111.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/141.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/142.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/148.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/218.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/384.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/385.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/386.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/387.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/388.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/665.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/701.html

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/24/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/25/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/26/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/29/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/3
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-51765
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255869
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218351
• https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/events/11782.html
• https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/5dd76dd0cc19450133aa379ce0ce4a68ae07fb39#diff-afdf514b32ac88004952c11660c57bc96c3d8b2234007c1cbd8d7ed7fd7935cc
• https://lwn.net/Articles/956533/
• https://sec-consult.com/blog/detail/smtp-smuggling-spoofing-e-mails-worldwide/
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/7
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/22/7
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8KPV96g1To