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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 16.7%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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 to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 16.68% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125, CWE-200
- Affected
- dovecot/dovecot · debian/debian linux · ubuntu/ubuntu
- Source
- talos-cna@cisco.com
EPSS 16.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130Third Party Advisory
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.htmlIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130Third Party Advisory
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.htmlIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.