vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-24386: dovecot -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 4, 2021
Added
Jan 6, 2021
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Dovecot before 2.3.13. By using IMAP IDLE, an authenticated attacker can trigger unhibernation via attacker-controlled parameters, leading to access to other users' email messages (and path disclosure).

Solution

debian-upgrade-dovecot
Title
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