CVE-2017-14461
Published: 28 February 2018
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | affects 2.0 - 2.2.33, 2.3.0 |
Priority
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 7.1 |
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |