CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-53859

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2025-08-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-08-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus have a vulnerability in the ngx_mail_smtp_module that might allow an unauthenticated attacker to over-read NGINX SMTP authentication process memory; as a result, the server side may leak arbitrary bytes sent in a request to the authentication server. This issue happens during the NGINX SMTP authentication process and requires the attacker to make preparations against the target system to extract the leaked data. The issue affects NGINX only if (1) it is built with the ngx_mail_smtp_module, (2) the smtp_auth directive is configured with method "none," and (3) the authentication server returns the "Auth-Wait" response header. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected configurations

• f5 nginx plus r30 • f5 nginx plus r31 • f5 nginx plus r32 • f5 nginx plus r33 • f5 nginx plus r34 • f5 nginx open source (>= 0.7.22 < 1.29.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References