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 2018-03-02 15:29:00
Updated 2022-04-19 19:15:18
Source Talos
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Vulnerability category: Denial of serviceInformation leak

Products affected by CVE-2017-14461

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-14461

18.22%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 96 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2017-14461

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
5.5
MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
8.0
4.9
NIST
7.1
HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
2.8
4.2
NIST
5.9
MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
1.6
4.2
Talos

CWE ids for CVE-2017-14461

References for CVE-2017-14461

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