CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-8794
Critical (9.8). EPSS 89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
OpenSMTPD before 6.6.4 allows remote code execution because of an out-of-bounds read in mta_io in mta_session.c for multi-line replies. Although this vulnerability affects the client side of OpenSMTPD, it is possible to attack a server because the server code launches the client code during bounce handling.
Severity
- EPSS
- 89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- opensmtpd:opensmtpd
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156633/OpenSMTPD-Out-Of-Bounds-Read-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/32
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/26/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/01/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/01/2