Attacker can use the IMAP SETACL command to inject the anyone permission to user's dovecot-acl file even if imap_acl_allow_anyone=no. This causes folders to be spammed to all users. The impact is limited to being able to spam folders to other users, no unexpe…
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CVE-2017-2669
Beschreibung
Dovecot before version 2.2.29 is vulnerable to a denial of service. When 'dict' passdb and userdb were used for user authentication, the username sent by the IMAP/POP3 client was sent through var_expand() to perform %variable expansion. Sending specially crafted %variable fields could result in excessive memory usage causing the process to crash (and restart), or excessive CPU usage causing all authentications to hang.
Schwachstellentyp (CWE):
CWE-20
Daten: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Wiedergegeben wie in der Quelle, auf Englisch.
Betroffene Produkte und Versionen
| Hersteller | Produkt | Versionen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | dovecot | dovecot 2.2.29 |
Referenzen und Patches
- [dovecot-news] 20170410 v2.2.29 released mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20170411 CVE-2017-2669: Dovecot DoS when passdb dict was used for authentication mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2669
- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735.patch
- DSA-3828 vendor-advisory
- 97536 vdb-entry