CVE-2014-3430

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Dovecot 1.1 before 2.2.13 and dovecot-ee before 2.1.7.7 and 2.2.x before 2.2.12.12 does not properly close old connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an incomplete SSL/TLS handshake for an IMAP/POP3 connection.

Affected products

dovecot: 1.1, 1.1-rc2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 (+76)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0223.html
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2014-May/000273.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0790.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/77499
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0790.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59051
http://secunia.com/advisories/59537
http://secunia.com/advisories/59552
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2954
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:113
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/09/8

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