CVE-2016-8652

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CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

EPSS

48%p99

Published

Feb 17, 2017 (Feb 17, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The auth component in Dovecot before 2.2.27, when auth-policy is configured, allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by aborting authentication without setting a username.

Vendors: dovecot
Products: dovecot
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (48.2%)

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