Summary: Recently there was a discovery of vulnerabaility tracked as (CVE-2020-7247) in OpenSMTPD, OpenBSD’s mail server. This vulnerability was exploitable since May 2018 (commit a8e222352f, “switch smtpd to new grammar”) that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands, as root: >> either locally, in OpenSMTPD’s default configuration (that listens on loopback interface and only … Continue reading “OpenBSD OpenSMTPD Remote Command Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247)”
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OpenBSD Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Summary: Qualys researchers discovered an authentication-bypass vulnerability (CVE-2019-19521) in OpenBSD’s authentication system. An attacker can exploit this issue by sending a specially-crafted username to bypass OpenBSD’s authentication. This vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Vulnerability: OpenBSD uses BSD Authentication, which is made up of a variety of authentication styles. The vulnerability is composed of 2 following … Continue reading “OpenBSD Authentication Bypass Vulnerability”
