# CVE-2020-12272: OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x allows attacks that inject authentication results to provide false information about the domain that origi

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-04-27 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x allows attacks that inject authentication results to provide false information about the domain that originated an e-mail message. This is caused by incorrect parsing and interpretation of SPF/DKIM authentication results, as demonstrated by the example.net(.example.com substring.

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## References

- https://sourceforge.net/p/opendmarc/tickets/237/
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20fall_chen-jianjun_prepub_0.pdf
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2D4JGHMALEJEWWG56DKR5OZB22TK7W5B/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KBOGOQOK3TIWWJV66MW5YWNRJAFFYGR5/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00035.html

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