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CVE-2023-51765

sendmail through 8.17.2 allows SMTP smuggling in certain configurations.

Impact

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 <LF>.<CR><LF> but some other popular e-mail servers do not. This is resolved in 8.18 and later versions with 'o' in srv_features.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SendmailSendmail
before 8.18.0.2
FreebsdFreebsd
before 11.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification

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