Opendmarc
CVE-2020-12460
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, write limits
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation 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. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 has improper null termination in the function opendmarc_xml_parse that can result in a one-byte heap overflow in opendmarc_xml when parsing a. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate write boundaries, use memory-safe languages, enable compiler protections (ASLR, stack canaries).
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787), which allows attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes. OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 has improper null termination in the function opendmarc_xml_parse that can result in a one-byte heap overflow in opendmarc_xml when parsing a specially crafted DMARC aggregate report. This can cause remote memory corruption when a '\0' byte overwrites the heap metadata of the next chunk and its PREV_INUSE flag. Affected products include: Trusteddomain Opendmarc, Fedoraproject Fedora, Debian Debian Linux. Version information: through 1.3.2.
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Severity by source
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 has improper null termination in the function opendmarc_xml_parse that can result in a one-byte heap overflow in opendmarc_xml when parsing a specially crafted DMARC aggregate report. This can cause remote memory corruption when a '\0' byte overwrites the heap metadata of the next chunk and its PREV_INUSE flag.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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EPSS
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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
OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 is prone to a signature-bypass vulnerability with multiple From: a
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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