Vulnerability CVE-2014-3556


Published: 2014-12-29

Description:
The STARTTLS implementation in mail/ngx_mail_smtp_handler.c in the SMTP proxy in nginx 1.5.x and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 does not properly restrict I/O buffering, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert commands into encrypted SMTP sessions by sending a cleartext command that is processed after TLS is in place, related to a "plaintext command injection" attack, a similar issue to CVE-2011-0411.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
nginx 1.7.3 SMTP STARTTLS plaintext injection flaw
Vasyl
30.12.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Nginx -> Nginx 

 References:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2014/000144.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126891
http://nginx.org/download/patch.2014.starttls.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142103967620673&w=2

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