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Lotus Notes/Domino SMTP Server Percent Encapsulated Spam Relay

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Lotus Notes/Domino SMTP Server Percent Encapsulated Spam Relay

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/01/2004
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/01/2004
Modified
03/21/2018

Description

Lotus Notes SMTP MTA is susceptible to being used as a mail relay for SPAM or other unsolicited email. By connecting to the mail server (tcp25) and issuing a 'MAIL FROM' command with <> as the argument, then issuing a specially encapsulated RCPT TO, an unauthorized user can relay email via this server.

An encapsulated address looks like this: encapsulatedaddress@yourdomain.com

where yourdomain.com is the domain of the vulnerable mail server, and encapsulatedaddress is the encoded destination email address. The encoding scheme is as follows: replace "@" with "%".

Solution(s)

  • smtp-domino-0002

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