Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting postfix package, versions <3.8.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
21.85% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-POSTFIX-6139217
  • published24 Dec 2023
  • disclosed24 Dec 2023

Introduced: 24 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-51764  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable postfix to version 3.8.4-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

Postfix through 3.8.5 allows SMTP smuggling unless configured with smtpd_data_restrictions=reject_unauth_pipelining and smtpd_discard_ehlo_keywords=chunking (or certain other options that exist in recent versions). 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 Postfix supports <LF>.<CR><LF> but some other popular e-mail servers do not. To prevent attack variants (by always disallowing <LF> without <CR>), a different solution is required, such as the smtpd_forbid_bare_newline=yes option with a Postfix minimum version of 3.5.23, 3.6.13, 3.7.9, 3.8.4, or 3.9.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1