CVE-2020-25275

HIGH

Dovecot < 2.3.13 - Denial of Service via Crafted Email with MIME Parts

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Dovecot before 2.3.13 has Improper Input Validation in lda, lmtp, and imap, leading to an application crash via a crafted email message with certain choices for ten thousand MIME parts.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://dovecot.org/security
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/3
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-January/000451.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4825
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/18
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-01

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0466
EPSS Percentile 90.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
dovecot/dovecot < 2.3.13
fedoraproject/fedora 32
Published Jan 04, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026