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Automatic Insecurity: Exploring Email Auto-configuration in the Wild

Shushang Wen, Yiming Zhang, Yuxiang Shen, Bingyu Li, Haixin Duan and Jingqiang Lin · NDSS Symposium

First systematic study of email auto-configuration, where a client fetches server settings from the domain or DNS instead of the user typing them. Ten attack scenarios covering seventeen defects let an attacker steer a client to an attacker-controlled mail server or a plaintext connection and take the credentials; 49,013 domains and 22 of 29 clients were affected.

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Shushang Wen, Yiming Zhang, Yuxiang Shen, Bingyu Li, Haixin Duan and Jingqiang Lin

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NDSS Symposium

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• Added to the 2025 archive after the original list was published

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Tags

• email
• smtp
• dns
• tls
• info-leak
• measurement-study
• large-scale-scan
• owasp-a02-2021

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