7.5

CVE-2020-12100

Exploit

In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, uncontrolled recursion in submission, lmtp, and lda allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted e-mail message with deeply nested MIME parts.

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
DovecotDovecot Version < 2.3.11.3
DebianDebian Linux Version9.0
DebianDebian Linux Version10.0
FedoraprojectFedora Version31
FedoraprojectFedora Version32
FedoraprojectFedora Version33
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version14.04 SwEditionesm
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version16.04 SwEditionesm
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version18.04 SwEditionlts
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version20.04 SwEditionlts
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 11.87% 0.935
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 7.5 3.9 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 5 10 2.9
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.