CVE-2023-51765
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.84%sendmail - security update
Published: 12/24/2023Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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 packages (2)
- Debian/sendmailfrom 0, < 8.15.2-22+deb11u1
- Debian/sendmailfrom 0, < 8.15.2-14~deb10u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |