CVE-2019-10691

HIGH

Dovecot < 2.3.5.2 - Denial of Service via Invalid UTF-8 Username

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/3
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-April/000406.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-29

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0162
EPSS Percentile 82.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (2)
dovecot/dovecot < 2.3.5.2
opensuse/leap 15.0
Published Apr 24, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026