CVE-2019-10691
N/A
Published: April 24, 2019 at 04:49 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:11 AM UTC
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the username.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 2.3.5.2
Affected range stops below 2.3.5.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Leap· openSUSEdrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00000.html
- https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-April/000406.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-29
References (5)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00000.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/3Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-April/000406.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-29Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo
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