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Nextcloud · Report #793532

Email Spoofing

Duplicatestatus
mediumseverity
6upvotes
20 Feb 2020disclosed

How it was found

An SPF/DMARC record is a type of Domain Name Service (DNS) record that identifies which mail servers are permitted to send email on behalf of your domain. The purpose of an SPF/DMARC record is to prevent spammers from sending messages on the behalf of your organization.

Remediation: Create a SPF record. And configure the DMARC policy so that only authorized and allowed mail server could send the mails on the behalf of the organization.

Impact

Impact: The impact is, attacker can send the mail on the behalf of your organization and ask any kind of password or personal sensitive information from the victim.

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