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16 years of CVE-2008-0166 – Debian OpenSSL Bug


Many DKIM setups used cryptographic keys vulnerable to the 2008 Debian OpenSSL Bug (CVE-2008-0166) in 2024.

DKIM is a mechanism that allows sending mail servers to sign emails with a cryptographic key published via a DNS TXT record. By scanning DKIM keys with my tool badkeys, I discovered a surprisingly large number of hosts vulnerable to the 2008 Debian OpenSSL bug. In some cases, I only controlled the DKIM key of a subdomain, but even then, the BIMI logo configured for the main domain is shown automatically.

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