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nginx -- worker process memory disclosure

Affected packages
nginx-devel < 1.29.1

Details

VuXML ID eb03714d-79f0-11f0-b4c1-ac5afc632ba3
Discovery 2025-08-13
Entry 2025-08-15

F5 reports:

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.

References

CVE Name CVE-2025-53859
URL https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53859