CVE-2023-51764

Publication date 24 December 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Mitigation

Patched versions of Postfix before 3.9 require the below configs for the fix to apply: smtpd_forbid_bare_newline = normalize smtpd_forbid_bare_newline_exclusions = $mynetworks

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
postfix 23.10 mantic
Fixed 3.8.1-2ubuntu0.2
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.6.4-1ubuntu1.3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 3.4.13-0ubuntu1.4
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes

mdeslaur

We will not be releasing updates for Lunar which is EoL on 2024-01-25

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N