5.9Medium

CVE-2017-14461

The Dovecot Project Dovecot Published: 2018-03-02 18:00 (8 years ago)

Description

A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-125

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Dovecot Project	Dovecot	2.2.33.2

References and patches

USN-3587-1 vendor-advisory
[debian-lts-announce] 20180331 [SECURITY] [DLA 1333-1] dovecot security update mailing-list
DSA-4130 vendor-advisory
USN-3587-2 vendor-advisory
103201 vdb-entry
[dovecot-news] 20180228 v2.2.34 released mailing-list
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510

CVSS score

5.9Medium

Source: talos · CVSS 3.0

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: High
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: None
Availability: High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

EPSS (chance of exploitation in 30 days)

16.68%

higher than 97% of all CVEs

Timeline

ID reserved2017-09-13
Published2018-03-02 18:00
Reached IP-DB2026-10-24 23:51
Last updated2024-09-17 02:00

Assigned by (CNA): talos

View at source: CVE.org · NVD

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