Rule Category

SERVER-MAIL -- Snort has detected traffic exploiting vulnerabilities in mail servers (such as Exchange, Courrier). These are different from protocol traffic, as this deals with the traffic going to the mail server itself.

Alert Message

SERVER-MAIL OpenSMTPD smtp_mailaddr command injection attempt

Rule Explanation

This rule looks for attempts to exploit a command injection in OpenSMTPD via crafted "MAIL FROM" or "RCPT TO" SMTP headers.

What To Look For

This rule checks for attempts to exploit a command injection vulnerability in OpenSMTPD.

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

Rule Groups

No rule groups

CVE

Rule Vulnerability

Command Injection

Command Injection attacks target applications that allow unsafe user-supplied input. Attackers transmit this input via forms, cookies, HTTP headers, etc. and exploit the applications permissions to execute system commands without injecting code.

CVE Additional Information

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CVE-2020-7247
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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Execution

Technique: Command-Line Interface

For reference, see the MITRE ATT&CK vulnerability types here: https://attack.mitre.org