OESA-2021-1270

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    OESA-2021-1270

    Published: 17 Jul 2021Last Modified: 18 Aug 2026

    Summary: dovecot security update

    Details: Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systemsa wrapper package that will just handle common things for all versioned dovecot packages. Security Fix(es): The Sieve engine in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, as demonstrated by a situation with a complex regular expression for the regex extension.(CVE-2020-28200) The submission service in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows STARTTLS command injection in lib-smtp. Sensitive information can be redirected to an attacker-controlled address.(CVE-2021-33515)

    References: https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2021-1270, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28200, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33515

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dovecot

    Purl: pkg:rpm/openEuler/dovecot&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.15-1.oe1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    OESA-2021-1270 | CVE-DB