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nginx Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3556)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Web Servers

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

3 years ago

Modified

Modified

3 years ago

Summary

nginx is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability in the SMTP proxy.

Insight

Insight

A bug in nginx SMTP proxy was found, which allows an attacker in a privileged network position to inject commands into SSL sessions started with the STARTTLS command, potentially making it possible to steal sensitive information sent by clients.

Affected Software

Affected Software

nginx versions 1.5.6 - 1.7.3.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 1.6.1, 1.7.4 or later.

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