CVE-2020-28200

MEDIUM

Dovecot < 2.3.15 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Sieve Engine

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://dovecot.org/security
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/28/3

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0197
EPSS Percentile 77.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (3)
dovecot/dovecot < 2.3.15
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
Published Jun 28, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026