CVE-2020-28200

dovecot: insufficient protection against excessive resource usage allows for a DoS

Published Jun 28, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.0% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-20684 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00734}

epss

{'score': 0.01023}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:33 PM
Reserved
Nov 4, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 28, 2021, 1:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:10 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 21, 2021, 12:00 AM