VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-15132

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.12%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-01-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in dovecot 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0. An abort of SASL authentication results in a memory leak in dovecot's auth client used by login processes. The leak has impact in high performance configuration where same login processes are reused and can cause the process to crash due to memory exhaustion.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Primary references