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CVE-2011-4318

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-4318 describes a vulnerability in Dovecot 2.0.x before 2.0.16 where, when SSL/STARTTLS is enabled and hostname is used for proxy destination, the server fails to verify the hostname against the X.509 certificate's Common Name. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers using a valid certificate for a different hostname, leading to potential information disclosure and integrity compromise. With a CVSS score of 5.8, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring medium attack complexity and no authentication, but there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0132 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: dovecot-1:2.0.9-5.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-4318Low

dovecot: proxy destination host name not checked against SSL certificate name

Nov 17, 2011

References

hg.dovecot.org / dovecot-2.0/rev/5e9eaf63a6b1
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0520.html
Vendor Advisory
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/46886
secunia.com / advisories/52311
Vendor Advisory
dovecot.org / list/dovecot-news/2011-November/000200.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/11/18/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/11/18/7