Critical RCE flaw in OpenSMTPD, patch available

Qualys researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247) in OpenBSD’s OpenSMTPD mail server, which can allow attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands on the underlying system as root. “We developed a simple proof of concept and successfully tested it against OpenBSD 6.6 (the current release) and Debian testing (Bullseye); other versions and distributions may be exploitable,” they noted in the accompanying security advisory. What is OpenSMTPD? OpenSMTPD is an open source implementation of the Simple … More

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