CVE-2016-8652

dovecot: Remote crash when auth-policy component is activated

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.4

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 29, 2016

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

The auth component in Dovecot before 2.2.27, when auth-policy is configured, allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by aborting authentication without setting a username.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified