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CVE-2017-14461
A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 16.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By talos
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| talosCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 16.7% · top 3.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
- affected 2.2.33.2
References
7
- USN-3587-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180331 [SECURITY] [DLA 1333-1] dovecot security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3587-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 103201 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [dovecot-news] 20180228 v2.2.34 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-5964 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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