CVE-2020-28200

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

Description

The Sieve engine in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, as demonstrated by a situation with a complex regular expression for the regex extension.

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-2020-28200

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28200.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202106-57

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.5.15-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.3.16+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.3.16+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.3.16+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.3.16+dfsg1-1

References

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