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CVE-2017-14461

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CVE-2017-14461

Published: Mar 2, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

5.9

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

The Dovecot Project

Dovecot

affected
2.2.33.2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

USN-3587-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
DSA-4130
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
USN-3587-2
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
103201
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
[dovecot-news] 20180228 v2.2.34 released
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST

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