CVE-2020-7957
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.51%Published: 2/12/2020Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2020-7957
Description
The IMAP and LMTP components in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandle snippet generation when many characters must be read to compute the snippet and a trailing > character exists. This causes a denial of service in which the recipient cannot read all of their messages.
Affected packages (1)
- Alpine/dovecotfrom 0, < 2.3.10.1-r0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |