{"id":"CVE-2017-14461","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14461","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:04:13.203Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2018-03-02T15:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:06:11.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"talos-cna@cisco.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125","CWE-200"],"affected":["dovecot/dovecot","debian/debian linux","ubuntu/ubuntu"],"epss":{"score":0.16677,"percentile":0.97009,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html","source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/","source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14461","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}