CVE-2020-12272 Other in n/a

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Attackers can inject false authentication results to spoof email originators due to incorrect SPF/DKIM parsing in OpenDMARC.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2020-12272?

CVE-2020-12272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 27 Apr 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x allows attacks that inject authentication results to provide false information about the domain that originated an e-mail message. This is caused by incorrect parsing and interpretation of SPF/DKIM authentication results, as demonstrated by the example.net(.example.com substring.

Weakness: CWE-290

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12272?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Trusteddomain Opendmarc.

How do I fix CVE-2020-12272?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-12272 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12272 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12272, DLA-3546-1, GHSA-m64q-99pc-qh99, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12272, openSUSE-SU-2024:11576-1.

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