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Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2021-33515)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 28, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A security issue has been found in Dovecot before version 2.3.14.1. An on-path attacker could inject plaintext commands before the STARTTLS negotiation that would be executed after STARTTLS finished with the client. Only the SMTP submission service is affected. As a result, an attacker can potentially steal user credentials and emails. The attacker needs to have sending permissions on the submission server (a valid username and password).

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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