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by throwawaway44 1075 days ago
This is a bit weird.

A friend reported a similar vulnerability at our company about 2 days ago.

Basically there was a insecure SMTP server that you could use to send emails from anyone (internal) to anyone (internal or external).

Literally every employee/contractor on the company network had access to exploit the vulnerability. All you had to do was know how to use the Send-MailMessage function in powershell or something similar.

We work at a publicly traded company, so you could imagine how bad this could've been.

I have no idea if they're using mailgun though. But I wonder if this is related or merely a coincidence?

Note: I'm being intentionally vague about the details for obvious reasons.

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I don't think this is related.

The issue here is with inbound emails using Mailgun's inbound routes functionality.

Protecting your sending servers from abuse isn't an issue with Mailgun as far as I'm aware.