Dovecot vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Dovecot has 53 published vulnerabilities across 2 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Dovecot, with 53. If you run Dovecot software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Dovecot products have the most vulnerabilities?

Dovecot leads with 53 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Dovecot53
  2. Pigeonhole1
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Dovecot vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Dovecot's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Dovecot flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 62%

    In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings.

    CVSS9.8Published29 Aug 2019
  2. 51%

    lib-smtp in submission-login and lmtp in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandles truncated UTF-8 data in command parameters, as demonstrated by the unauthenticated triggering of a submission-login infinite loop.

    CVSS7.5Published12 Feb 2020
  3. 48%

    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.

    CVSS5.9Published17 Feb 2017
  4. 17%

    A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service.

    CVSS7.1Published2 Mar 2018
  5. 8.2%

    In Dovecot before 2.3.10.1, remote unauthenticated attackers can crash the lmtp or submission process by sending mail with an empty localpart.

    CVSS5.3Published18 May 2020
  6. 7.3%

    Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters,...

    CVSS6.8Published10 Mar 2008
  7. 7.2%

    In Dovecot before 2.3.10.1, unauthenticated sending of malformed parameters to a NOOP command causes a NULL Pointer Dereference and crash in submission-login, submission, or lmtp.

    CVSS7.5Published18 May 2020
  8. 6.2%

    The message parsing feature in Dovecot 1.1.4 and 1.1.5, when using the FETCH ENVELOPE command in the IMAP client, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via an email with a malformed...

    CVSS4.3Published4 Nov 2008
  9. 6.2%

    In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted RPA request will crash the auth service because a length of zero is mishandled.

    CVSS7.5Published12 Aug 2020
  10. 6.2%

    In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted NTLM request will crash the auth service because of an out-of-bounds read.

    CVSS7.5Published12 Aug 2020
Every product

All Dovecot products we track.

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Our catalogue lists 53 published vulnerabilities across 2 products and 266 versions from Dovecot.

None of Dovecot's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Dovecot, with 53 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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