Cyber Threats Vulnerabilities

SMTP Smuggling Technique in Email Spoofing Attacks

SMTP Smuggling is a technique that allows you to send e-mail from almost any e-mail address by hiding another e-mail message in the data flow of an e-mail communication. Basically, another e-mail is injected into the message by exploiting interpretation differences in the SMTP protocol. Since the main message successfully passes security checks such as SPF, DKIM and DMARC, the injected message is delivered to the recipient boxes without any warning.

Vulnerabilities

Roundcube Markasjunk Plugin Command Injection Vulnerability Analysis

On June 6, 2023, security researchers discovered a vulnerability in Roundcube’s “markasjunk” plugin. This vulnerability allow attackers to execute command by sending a specifically crafted identity email address through plugin.

Although the CVSSv3 score of the vulnerability is defined as “6.5”, according to Cyberthint analysts, its impact is actually critical and CWE ID: CWE-77.

Affected Versions: Roundcube versions 1.6.1 and earlier versions, when the markasjunk plugin is enabled.