Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2019-10691 |
CWE-ID | CWE-20 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Dovecot Server applications / Mail servers |
Vendor | Dovecot |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU18307
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10691
CWE-ID:
CWE-20 - Improper input validation
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation of user-supplied characters in UTF-8 encoding within the JSON encoder. A remote unauthenticated attacker can supply a specially crafted string that contains invalid UTF-8 characters via a username during authentication process or via “From” or “Subject” headers in an email (if OX push notification driver is enabled) and crash the affected server.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability will result in denial of service (DoS) attack.
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Vulnerable software versionsDovecot: 2.3.0 - 2.3.5.1
External linkshttp://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-April/000406.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.