Auth bypass in Dovecot

CVE-2014-3430

Dovecot 1.1 before 2.2.13 and dovecot-ee before 2.1.7.7 and 2.2.x before 2.2.12.12 does not properly close old connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an incomplete SSL/TLS handshake for an IMAP/POP3 connection.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.033 (88.2th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2014-3430: held from 0.033 to 0.033.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Dovecot — versions 1.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

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