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CVE-2010-0745

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Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via long headers in an e-mail message.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2010-0771

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572268

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1226

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1107

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/10/6

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:104

http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0745

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127013715227551&w=2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html

http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047190.html

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-05-20

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03078

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