THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-14461
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2017-14461

Dovecot vulnerability

CVSS
5.9
EPSS
17.0%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Dovecot
Affected product
Dovecot
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information
Published
2018-03-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 17.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-14461

  • Confirm whether Dovecot Dovecot is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-14461.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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