VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-10691

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-04-24
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

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references