SMTP command injection
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Vulnerability Details
Net::SMTP is vulnerable to RCPT TO/MAIL FROM injection due to lack of input validation and conformance to the SMTP protocol.
Publicly disclosed already: http://www.mbsd.jp/Whitepaper/smtpi.pdf
People are wrongly assigning this to the mail gem (http://rubysec.com/advisories/OSVDB-131677/) and thinking it's fixed, when in fact the underlying vuln remains in Net::SMTP.
Discussed as an issue with the `mail` library here: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/issues/215. And mentioned that it's likely an issue with net-smtp not doing input validation, per RFC spec: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/issues/215#issuecomment-163906956
The mail gem *should* do input validation too, of course. But its responsibility is creating internet messages, and it would validate addresses against that spec. Its responsibility is not SMTP protocol compliance. Net::SMTP is.
Addressing this in Ruby in a timely manner will help resolve the considerable confusion that's emerged due to the lack of response to a publicly disclosed vulnerability.
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- Report ID: 137631
- State: Closed
- Substate: resolved
- Upvotes: 10