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CVE-2017-14461

A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sens…

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.9
v3.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
16.7%
percentile 97%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

16.68% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
CNA3.05.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CNA3.05.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD3.07.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • The Dovecot Project Dovecot

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

  • usn.ubuntu.com /3587-1/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • debian.org /security/2018/dsa-4130 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred
  • usn.ubuntu.com /3587-2/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/103201 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • dovecot.org /list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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