#VU27981 NULL pointer dereference in Dovecot - CVE-2020-10957
Published: May 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU27981
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10957
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Dovecot
Dovecot
Software vendor:
Dovecot
Dovecot
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing NOOP command. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted NOOP command to submission, submission-login or lmtp service, trigger a NULL pointer dereference and perform a denial of service attack.
PoC command:
``NOOP EE"FY``
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.