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CVE-2023-27582

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-27582 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting maddy mail server versions 0.2.0 through 0.6.2. An attacker can fully bypass authentication by specifying an arbitrary authorization username when using the PLAIN SASL mechanism, as the server incorrectly validates only the authentication username. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.2.0, < 0.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maddy_project:maddy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0102 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/foxcpp/maddyFixed in: 0.6.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-4g76-w3xw-2x6wcritical

Full authentication bypass if SASL authorization username is specified

Mar 14, 2023

References

github.com / foxcpp/maddy/commit/55a91a37b71210f34f98f4d327c30308fe24399a
Patch
github.com / foxcpp/maddy/commit/9f58cb64b39cdc01928ec463bdb198c4c2313a9c
Patch
github.com / foxcpp/maddy/releases/tag/v0.6.3
Release Notes
github.com / foxcpp/maddy/security/advisories/GHSA-4g76-w3xw-2x6w
PatchVendor Advisory