Vulnerability RUSTSEC-2020-0069

Medium Risk
MEDIUM RISK
CVSS Score: 5.3
Score Range: 4.0–6.9
Medium severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 4.0–6.9). Important issues that meaningfully reduce security confidence.
5 years ago
November 11, 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC
Argument injection in sendmail transport
0.7.0
0.7.0

Summary

Argument injection in sendmail transport

Details

Affected versions of lettre allowed argument injection to the sendmail command. It was possible, using forged to addresses, to pass arbitrary arguments to the sendmail executable.

Depending on the implementation (original sendmail, postfix, exim, etc.) it could be possible in some cases to write email data into arbitrary files (using sendmail's logging features).

The flaw is corrected by modifying the executed command to stop parsing arguments before passing the destination addresses.

NOTE: This vulnerability only affects the sendmail transport. Others, including smtp, are not affected.

This vulnerability was reported by vin01.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
5 years ago
November 11, 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC
Fixed (0.10.0-alpha.4)
5 years ago
November 11, 2020 at 04:19 PM UTC
Fixed (0.9.5)
5 years ago
November 11, 2020 at 04:40 PM UTC
Fixed (0.8.4)
5 years ago
November 11, 2020 at 04:48 PM UTC
Fixed (0.7.1)
5 years ago
November 11, 2020 at 04:52 PM UTC
Last Modified
2 years ago
November 08, 2023 at 04:03 AM UTC