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CVE-2013-2111

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The IMAP functionality in Dovecot before 2.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via invalid APPEND parameters.

Affected products

• dovecot: through 2.2.1; 2.2-rc1, 2.2-rc2, 2.2-rc3, 2.2-rc4, 2.2-rc5, 2.2-rc6 (+2)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/53492
• http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-May/000255.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/24/1
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028585
• http://secunia.com/advisories/53492
• http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-May/000255.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/24/1
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028585

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