Medium (4.3). EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Sieve engine in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, as demonstrated by a situation with a complex regular expression for the regex extension.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
4.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)