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-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot-pigeonholeUpgrade dovecot-mysqlUpgrade dovecot | Dec 4, 2019 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade dovecotUpgrade dovecot-mysqlUpgrade dovecot-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot-pigeonhole | Dec 18, 2019 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade dovecot-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot-mysqlUpgrade dovecotUpgrade dovecot-pigeonhole | Nov 19, 2019 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade dovecot23-ftsUpgrade dovecot22Upgrade dovecot23-fts-squatUpgrade dovecot23-develUpgrade dovecot23Upgrade dovecot23-fts-luceneUpgrade dovecot23-backend-sqliteUpgrade dovecot23-backend-mysqlUpgrade dovecot22-develUpgrade dovecot23-fts-solrUpgrade dovecot22-backend-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot22-backend-sqliteUpgrade dovecot23-backend-pgsqlUpgrade dovecot22-backend-mysql | May 4, 2018 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade dovecot-core | Mar 6, 2018 | Mar 2, 2018 |
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