CVE-2019-10691

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the username.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-10691

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10691.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201904-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.3.5.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.3.4.1-4
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.3.4.1-4
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.3.4.1-4
debian debiansidfixed1:2.3.4.1-4
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.3.4.1-4

References

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