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CVE-2017-15130

A denial of service flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34.

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.9
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
2.6%
percentile 85%
Public exploits
0
none known

A denial of service flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34. An attacker able to generate random SNI server names could exploit TLS SNI configuration lookups, leading to excessive memory usage and the process to restart.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.55% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.05.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • The Dovecot Project dovecot

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

  • usn.ubuntu.com /3587-1/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
  • seclists.org /oss-sec/2018/q1/205 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, 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
  • bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=1532356 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • dovecot.org /list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred

Sources

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