CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
61.1%
Dovecot is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
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#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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#
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
CPE = "cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117514");
script_version("2021-08-17T14:01:00+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2021-08-17 14:01:00 +0000 (Tue, 17 Aug 2021)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-06-28 11:44:06 +0000 (Mon, 28 Jun 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-07-05 03:15:00 +0000 (Mon, 05 Jul 2021)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-28200");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Dovecot 1.2.0 - 2.3.14 DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_dovecot_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("dovecot/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Dovecot is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Sieve interpreter is not protected against abusive scripts that
claim excessive resource usage. Especially scripts using massive amounts of regexps.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Attacker can DoS the mail delivery system by using excessive
amount of CPU and/or reaching the lmtp/lda process limits.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Dovecot version 1.2.0 through 2.3.14.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.3.15 or later.
Workaround:
Disabling the regex sieve extension avoids the worst problems. lmtp_user_concurrency_limit may
also be helpful.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-June/000460.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-June/000457.html");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "1.2.0", test_version2: "2.3.14")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2.3.15", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
61.1%