VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3430

medium
Published 2014-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.2.13~rc1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.2.13~rc1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.2.13~rc1-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.2.13~rc1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.2.13~rc1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
dovecotdovecot1.1
dovecotdovecot1.1.0
dovecotdovecot1.1.1
dovecotdovecot1.1.2
dovecotdovecot1.1.3
dovecotdovecot1.1.4
dovecotdovecot1.1.5
dovecotdovecot1.1.6
dovecotdovecot1.2.0
dovecotdovecot1.2.1
dovecotdovecot1.2.2
dovecotdovecot1.2.3
dovecotdovecot1.2.4
dovecotdovecot1.2.5
dovecotdovecot1.2.6
dovecotdovecot1.2.7
dovecotdovecot1.2.8
dovecotdovecot1.2.9
dovecotdovecot1.2.10
dovecotdovecot1.2.11
dovecotdovecot1.2.12
dovecotdovecot1.2.13
dovecotdovecot1.2.14
dovecotdovecot1.2.15
dovecotdovecot2.0
dovecotdovecot2.0.0
dovecotdovecot2.0.1
dovecotdovecot2.0.2
dovecotdovecot2.0.3
dovecotdovecot2.0.4
dovecotdovecot2.0.5
dovecotdovecot2.0.6
dovecotdovecot2.0.7
dovecotdovecot2.0.8
dovecotdovecot2.0.9
dovecotdovecot2.0.10
dovecotdovecot2.0.11
dovecotdovecot2.0.12
dovecotdovecot2.0.13
dovecotdovecot2.0.14
dovecotdovecot2.0.15
dovecotdovecot2.1
dovecotdovecot2.1.0
dovecotdovecot2.1.1
dovecotdovecot2.1.2
dovecotdovecot2.1.3
dovecotdovecot2.1.4
dovecotdovecot2.1.5
dovecotdovecot2.1.6
dovecotdovecot2.1.7
dovecotdovecot2.1.8
dovecotdovecot2.1.10
dovecotdovecot2.1.11
dovecotdovecot2.1.12
dovecotdovecot2.1.13
dovecotdovecot2.1.14
dovecotdovecot2.1.15
dovecotdovecot2.2
dovecotdovecot2.2.0
dovecotdovecot2.2.1
dovecotdovecot2.2.2
dovecotdovecot2.2.3
dovecotdovecot2.2.4
dovecotdovecot2.2.5
dovecotdovecot2.2.6
dovecotdovecot2.2.7
dovecotdovecot2.2.8
dovecotdovecot2.2.9
dovecotdovecot2.2.10
dovecotdovecot2.2.13

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.