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Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2020-35766

January 3, 2021
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January 3, 2021
Title: OpenDKIM unsafe /tmp usage. Author: Michael Orlitzky.
Title: OpenDKIM unsafe /tmp usage. Author: Michael Orlitzky.

Summary

The OpenDKIM test suite relied on a fixed path under the world-writable /tmp directory for its temporary keys. An attacker could exploit the situation to overwrite files belonging to the user who runs the test suite.

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