CVE-2019-7524

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

1.17% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 67.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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.

Published

2019-03-28 13:45Z7 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-04 20:54Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-02-06

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 8.8)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:L/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

097b303514a3dfe6ac72ccd8a1d9fa06ba081a05207b159a70bf35b6f9b63f76

• dovecot.orghttps://dovecot.org/security.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• dovecot.orghttps://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/000403.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190328 CVE-2019-7524: Buffer overflow when reading extension header from dovecot index fileshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• seclists.org20190328 [SECURITY] [DSA 4418-1] dovecot security updatehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/59mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• www.debian.orgDSA-4418https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4418vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190329 [SECURITY] [DLA 1736-1] dovecot security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00038.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3928-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3928-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.securityfocus.com107672http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107672vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1212http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00060.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1220http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201904-19https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-9e004deceahttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-1b61a528ddhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA