CVE-2017-2669
—CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
EPSS
4%p91
Published
()
Modified
Description
Dovecot before version 2.2.29 is vulnerable to a denial of service. When 'dict' passdb and userdb were used for user authentication, the username sent by the IMAP/POP3 client was sent through var_expand() to perform %variable expansion. Sending specially crafted %variable fields could result in excessive memory usage causing the process to crash (and restart), or excessive CPU usage causing all authentications to hang.
In the news0 stories
No ingested article mentions this CVE yet.