CVE-2019-11500
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 62.3%
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. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 62.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile
- Published
- 2019-08-29
- Updated
- 2024-08-04
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2019-August/000417.html
- https://www.dovecot.org/security.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00035.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-29