CVE-2020-10957

dovecot: malformed NOOP commands leads to DoS

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 18, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Dovecot, where it did not properly handle certain malformed NOOP commands. This flaw allows a malicious attacker to cause the submission, submission-login, or lmtp services to crash by sending specially crafted commands.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption