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CVE-2019-11500

critical CVSS 9.8 EPSS 62.6%

In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.

Versions it affects

Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2019-11500 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
Critical
CVSS base score
9.8 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
62.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-787
Published
2019-08-29

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