What is CVE-2024-23184?

CVE-2024-23184 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-xchange Gmbh Ox Dovecot Pro, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2024-09-10.

How severe is CVE-2024-23184?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Open-xchange Gmbh Ox Dovecot Pro

CVE-2024-23184

Having a large number of address headers (From, To, Cc, Bcc, etc.) becomes excessively CPU intensive. With 100k header lines CPU usage is already 12 seconds, and in a production environment we observed 500k header lines taking 18 minutes t…

EPSS: 0.008 (53.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Open-xchange Gmbh Ox Dovecot Pro — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-23184?: CVE-2024-23184 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-xchange Gmbh Ox Dovecot Pro, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2024-09-10.
How severe is CVE-2024-23184?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.