MTA Open Mail Relaying Allowed

high Nessus Plugin ID 10262

Synopsis

An open SMTP relay is running on the remote host.

Description

Nessus has detected that the remote SMTP server allows mail relaying.
This issue allows any spammer to use your mail server to send their mail to the world, thus flooding your network bandwidth and possibly getting your mail server blacklisted.

Solution

Reconfigure your SMTP server so that it cannot be used as an indiscriminate SMTP relay. Make sure that the server uses appropriate access controls to limit the extent to which relaying is possible.

See Also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 10262

File Name: smtp_relay.nasl

Version: 1.63

Type: remote

Published: 6/22/1999

Updated: 10/11/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-1999-0512

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:X/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Excluded KB Items: SMTP/wrapped, SMTP/qmail

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/1990

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-1999-0512, CVE-2002-1278, CVE-2003-0285

BID: 7580, 8196, 83209