CVE-2010-0745
Unspecified vulnerability in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via long headers in an e-mail message.
02 Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via long headers in an e-mail message.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2010-05-20 17:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 00:59Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2010-02-26
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 099f21c9a9ee17bddbf49f21b77612eccbd4417f70b26949d7df00dca2a32cd5
05 Affected products
06 References
- security-tracker.debian.orghttp://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0745
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1107http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1107
- dovecot.org[dovecot] 20100227 Possible CPU Denial-Of-Service attack to dovecot IMAP.http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047190.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2010:011http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2010:104http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:104
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572268
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1226http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1226
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20100310 CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing email with huge headerhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/10/6
- dovecot.org[dovecot-news] 20100308 v1.2.11 releasedhttp://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html
- marc.info[oss-security] 20100401 Re: CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing email with huge headerhttp://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127013715227551&w=2
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- dovecot Fixed in 1:1.2.11-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- dovecot Fixed in 1:1.2.11-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- dovecot Fixed in 1:1.2.11-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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