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CVE-2020-12673

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12673 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Dovecot versions prior to 2.3.11.3, affecting distributions like Canonical, Debian, and Fedora. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash the authentication service by sending a specially crafted NTLM request. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), it represents a significant availability risk, though it has low exploitability and no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.3.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0619 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
drupalpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
freeswitchpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: dovecot-1:2.2.36-5.el8_0.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: dovecot-1:2.2.36-10.el8_1.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: dovecot-1:2.2.36-6.el7_8.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: dovecot-1:2.3.8-2.el8_2.2
View patch
synologypatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: null
View patch
boschvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch
broadcomvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch
ubiquitivendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch

Vendor Advisories (8)

redhatCVE-2020-12673Important

dovecot: Out of bound reads in dovecot NTLM implementation

Aug 12, 2020
drupalllm-drupal-4a0c886e3727cd12

Specially crafted NTLM package can crash auth service

Aug 12, 2020
ubiquitillm-ubiquiti-dcfe4ead0ee93db0

Specially crafted NTLM package can crash auth service

Aug 12, 2020
synologyllm-synology-cbcbb7976a63098e

Specially crafted NTLM package can crash auth service

Aug 12, 2020
denollm-deno-fe84f8c24b2569d4

Specially crafted NTLM package can crash auth service

Aug 12, 2020
broadcomllm-broadcom-dae1ffa20fbac73d

CVE-2020-12673: Specially crafted NTLM package can crash auth service

Aug 12, 2020
freeswitchllm-freeswitch-10d04a5c868b619f

Specially crafted NTLM package can crash auth service

Aug 12, 2020
boschllm-bosch-c3dffc242e42462b

CVE-2020-12673: Specially crafted NTLM package can crash auth service

Aug 12, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00048.html
Broken Link
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00059.html
Broken Link
dovecot.org / security
Vendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00024.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4AAX2MJEULPVSRZOBX3PNPFSYP4FM4TT
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EYZU6CHA3VMYYAUCMHSCCQKJEVEIKPQ2
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XKKAL3OMG76ZZ7CIEMQP2K6KCTD2RAKE
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202009-02
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4456-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4456-2
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4745
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/08/12/2
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory