CVE-ID

CVE-1999-0512
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Description
A mail server is explicitly configured to allow SMTP mail relay, which allows abuse by spammers.
References
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
19990607 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Modified (20020427)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(3) Baker, Northcutt, Shostack
MODIFY(1) Frech
NOOP(1) Christey
Comments (Legacy) 
 Frech> XF:smtp-sendmail-relay(210)
   XF:ntmail-relay(2257)
   XF:exchange-relay(3107) (also assigned to CVE-1999-0682)
   XF:smtp-relay-uucp(3470)
   XF:sco-sendmail-spam(4342)
   XF:sco-openserver-mmdf-spam(4343)
   XF:lotus-domino-smtp-mail-relay(6591)
   XF:win2k-smtp-mail-relay(6803)
   XF:cobalt-poprelayd-mail-relay(6806)
   
   Candidate implicitly may refer to relaying settings enabled by default, or
   the bypass/circumvention of relaying. Both interpretations were used in
   assigning this candidate.
 Christey> The intention of this candidate is to cover configurations in
   which the admin has explicitly enabled relaying.  Other cases
   in which the application *intends* to prvent relaying, but
   there is some specific input that bypasses/tricks it, count
   as vulnerabilities (or exposures?) and as such would be
   assigned different numbers.
   
   http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/spam.html seems like a good
   general resource, as does ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2505.txt
 Christey> I changed the description to make it more clear that the issue
   is that of explicit configuration, as opposed to being the
   result of a vulnerability.
Proposed (Legacy)
19990728
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