High (7.5). EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the username.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)