CVE-2017-14461
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
02 Description
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
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
- 16.67% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. 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
- 2018-03-02 15:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 23:00Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-09-13
- Assigning CNA
- talos
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.9)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 974c23fb536913ce64d7c76c38a21c9cc0dde10193fbd86cc53fb5db8c8703f8
05 Affected products
06 References
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3587-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180331 [SECURITY] [DLA 1333-1] dovecot security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-4130https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3587-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
- www.securityfocus.com103201http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201
- www.dovecot.org[dovecot-news] 20180228 v2.2.34 releasedhttps://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html
- talosintelligence.comhttps://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- dovecot Fixed in 2.3.0.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- dovecot Fixed in 1:2.2.34-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- dovecot Fixed in 1:2.2.34-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- dovecot Fixed in 1:2.2.34-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- dovecot Fixed in 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- dovecot Fixed in 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.7
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.