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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade dovecot | Aug 22, 2024 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade dovecot | Mar 4, 2018 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade dovecot-mysqlUpgrade dovecotUpgrade dovecot-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot-pigeonhole | Dec 4, 2019 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade dovecot-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot-pigeonholeUpgrade dovecotUpgrade dovecot-mysql | Dec 18, 2019 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade dovecot-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot-pigeonholeUpgrade dovecotUpgrade dovecot-mysql | Nov 19, 2019 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade dovecot22-backend-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot22-develUpgrade dovecot23-backend-mysqlUpgrade dovecot22-backend-sqliteUpgrade dovecot23-backend-sqliteUpgrade dovecot23-backend-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot22-backend-mysqlUpgrade dovecot23-fts-solrUpgrade dovecot23-develUpgrade dovecot23-fts-luceneUpgrade dovecot22Upgrade dovecot23Upgrade dovecot23-ftsUpgrade dovecot23-fts-squat | May 4, 2018 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade dovecot-core | Mar 6, 2018 | Mar 2, 2018 |
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