CVE-2024-23185: Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro vulnerability
Open-Xchange GmbH · OX Dovecot Pro
Vendor fix available · Affected: Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
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Higher than 70% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Very large headers can cause resource exhaustion when parsing message. The message-parser normally reads reasonably sized chunks of the message. However, when it feeds them to message-header-parser, it starts building up "full_value" buffer out of the smaller chunks. The full_value buffer has no size limit, so large headers can cause large memory usage. It doesn't matter whether it's a single long header line, or a single header split into multiple lines. This bug exists in all Dovecot versions. Incoming mails typically have some size limits set by MTA, so even largest possible header size may still fit into Dovecot's vsz_limit. So attackers probably can't DoS a victim user this way. A user could APPEND larger mails though, allowing them to DoS themselves (although maybe cause some memory issues for the backend in general). One can implement restrictions on headers on MTA component preceding Dovecot. No publicly available exploits are known.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Open-Xchange GmbH · OX Dovecot Proup to and including 2.3.21
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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Open-Xchange GmbH
- Published
- September 2024
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