CVE-2017-14461

Published Mar 2, 2018

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
talos-cna@cisco.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
4.2
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.5
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-125
talos-cna@cisco.com
CWE-125

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations