Re: Mail Relay / Open Mail Replay

[haZard0us <hazard0us.pt () gmail com>]

On 02-10-2011 19:25, informationhacker08 wrote:
> Suppose there is Mail server having port 25 open xyz.com
> an attacker login on Mail server  through telnet and then try to send the
> mail but the he can
>   only send a mail within the xyz company not outside ..so this will be
> consider as Vulnerability or not
>
> eg. telnet xyz.com
> mail from:<dddd () ddddd com>
> mail rcpt :<vbn () xyz com>--->only within  the network not outside realying
> the mail

In my humble opinion, i think that it is.

Because if he can access your mail server, he can send mails pretending 
whoever he wants to be. Social Engineering attacks work like these.

This is my humble opinion, since i'm still a "new kid on the block".

-haZ

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