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🛡️ OESA-2025-1077 — libspf2 (CVE-2023-42118)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

libspf2 security update

libspf2 is an implementation of the SPF (Sender Policy Framework) specification as found at: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mengwong-spf-00.txt SPF allows email systems to check SPF DNS records and make sure that an email is authorized by the administrator of the domain name that it is coming from. This prevents email forgery, commonly used by spammers, scammers, and email viruses/worms.

Security Fix(es):

Exim libspf2 Integer Underflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Exim libspf2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of SPF macros. When parsing SPF macros, the process does not properly validate user-supplied data, which can result in an integer underflow before writing to memory. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the service account.

. Was ZDI-CAN-17578.(CVE-2023-42118)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Affected software

OESA-2025-1077 is recorded against 1 package.

  • libspf2 (fixed in 1.2.11-2.oe2403sp1)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 January 2025 and last revised on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-01-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libspf2 — 1.2.11-2.oe2403sp1

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