CVSS 3.0
7.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HCVE-2017-14461
High (7.1). EPSS 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-125, CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- dovecot:dovecot
- ubuntu:ubuntu