{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2021-01-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "dovecot: Denial of service via mail MIME parsing",
    "id" : "1912460",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1912460"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-20",
  "details" : [ "Dovecot before 2.3.13 has Improper Input Validation in lda, lmtp, and imap, leading to an application crash via a crafted email message with certain choices for ten thousand MIME parts." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1887",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "dovecot-1:2.3.8-9.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "dovecot",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "dovecot",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "dovecot",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "dovecot",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25275\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25275\nhttps://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-January/000448.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-25275",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "A potential mitigation is configuring the mail transfer agent to not accept messages with more than 10,000 MIME parts.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}