VulnerabilityModified

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.

HIGH 7.1EPSS 16.7%

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
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-125, CWE-200
Affected: dovecot/dovecot · debian/debian linux · ubuntu/ubuntu
Source: talos-cna@cisco.com

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. Refreshed daily.