CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14461

7.1 HIGH Published 2018-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-200

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.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot 2.2.33.2 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • ubuntu ubuntu 14.04 • ubuntu ubuntu 16.04 • ubuntu ubuntu 17.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

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

References