Security News > 2020 > January > Critical RCE flaw in OpenSMTPD, patch available
2020-01-29 13:38
Qualys researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in OpenBSD's OpenSMTPD mail server, which can allow attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands on the underlying system as root.
OpenSMTPD is an open source implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
OpenSMTPD has also been incorporated in some of them.
The flaw has been responsibly disclosed to OpenSMTPD developers, who have released a patch for OpenBSD. A portable versions of the implementation has also been made available.
They did not say which versions of OpenSMTPD are affected, but promised to provide more details about the flaw "When things settle down".
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