Opendmarc
CVE-2019-16378
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Anti-spoofing controls
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the critical-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 is prone to a signature-bypass vulnerability with multiple From: addresses, which might affect applications that consider a domain name to be. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-290. OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 is prone to a signature-bypass vulnerability with multiple From: addresses, which might affect applications that consider a domain name to be relevant to the origin of an e-mail message. Affected products include: Trusteddomain Opendmarc, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Canonical Ubuntu Linux. Version information: through 1.3.2.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 is prone to a signature-bypass vulnerability with multiple From: addresses, which might affect applications that consider a domain name to be relevant to the origin of an e-mail message.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 has improper null termination in the function opendmarc_xml_parse
OpenDMARC 1.4.2 contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in /OpenDMARC/libopendmarc/opendmarc_policy.c. Rated h
OpenDMARC 1.4.1 and 1.4.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and applicati
Email authentication bypass in OpenDMARC up to 1.4.2 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to spoof sender domains by
DMARC authentication bypass in Trusted Domain Project OpenDMARC through 1.4.2 lets a remote attacker defeat the DMARC an
Integer overflow in OpenDMARC through 1.4.2 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to corrupt DMARC policy-percentage h
DMARC policy evaluation in Trusted Domain Project OpenDMARC through 1.4.2 can be bypassed by mail carrying sending-domai
OpenDMARC through 1.4.2 can mishandle Internationalized Domain Name labels during DMARC policy lookup in opendmarc_polic
Malformed DMARC policy tags (fo, rf, ri, pct, sp, adkim, aspf, rua, ruf) supplied in attacker-controlled DNS TXT records
Off-by-one bounds error in Trusted Domain Project OpenDMARC through 1.4.2 lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker send a
A NULL pointer dereference in the Trusted Domain Project's OpenDMARC (up to and including 1.4.2) can crash the mail filt
OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x allows attacks that inject authentication results to provide false information about t
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