Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting sendmail package, versions <8.15.2-22+deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-SENDMAIL-6139218
  • published24 Dec 2023
  • disclosed24 Dec 2023

Introduced: 24 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-51765  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 sendmail to version 8.15.2-22+deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sendmail package and not the sendmail package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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