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CVE-2006-0730

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0730 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Dovecot versions prior to 1.0beta3. These flaws could allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, leading to application crashes or hangs, particularly affecting the APPEND command, dovecot-auth, and imap/pop3-login components. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily results in a partial loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting low public awareness and attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0beta2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:timo_sirainen:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-0730

CVE-2006-0730

References

secunia.com / advisories/18870
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/24709
dovecot.org / list/dovecot/2006-February/011367.html
securityfocus.com / bid/16672
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/0549
Vendor Advisory