CVE-2025-53859 (GCVE-0-2025-53859)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 14:46 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
NGINX ngx_mail_smtp_module vulnerability
Summary
NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus have a vulnerability in the ngx_mail_smtp_module that might allow an unauthenticated attacker to over-read NGINX SMTP authentication process memory; as a result, the server side may leak arbitrary bytes sent in a request to the authentication server. This issue happens during the NGINX SMTP authentication process and requires the attacker to make preparations against the target system to extract the leaked data. The issue affects NGINX only if (1) it is built with the ngx_mail_smtp_module, (2) the smtp_auth directive is configured with method "none," and (3) the authentication server returns the "Auth-Wait" response header.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-13 15:06 UTC
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000152786 | vendor-advisory |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/13/5 |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F5 | NGINX Plus |
Unaffected:
R35
(custom)
Affected: R34 , < R34 P2 (custom) Affected: R33 , < R33 P3 (custom) Affected: R32 , < R32 P3 (custom) Affected: R31 , < * (custom) Affected: R30 , < * (custom) |
guessed | |
| F5 | NGINX Open Source |
Affected:
0.7 , < 1.29.1
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2025-08-13 14:00
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Nomenclature
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Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
How durations are calculated
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They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.