CVE-2017-14230

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14230
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14230.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14230
Published
2017-09-10T07:29:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T11:47:22Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the mboxlist_do_find function in imap/mboxlist.c in Cyrus IMAP before 3.0.4, an off-by-one error in prefix calculation for the LIST command caused use of uninitialized memory, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a 'LIST "" "Other Users"' command.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
1b4c53fe2193c72657b6108ec2e44e3e20bee22c
Fixed
6bd33275368edfa71ae117de895488584678ac79
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:cyrus:imap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "3.0.3"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

cyrus-imapd-2.*
cyrus-imapd-2.4.0
cyrus-imapd-2.4.1
cyrus-imapd-2.4.2
cyrus-imapd-2.5-snapshot-autoconf-and-automake
cyrus-imapd-3.*
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-beta1
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-beta2
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-beta3
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-beta4
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-beta5
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-beta6
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc1
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc2
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc3
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc4
cyrus-imapd-3.0.1
cyrus-imapd-3.0.2
cyrus-imapd-3.0.3
Other
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pretab

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14230.json"
vanir_signatures 
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        },
        "id":  "CVE-2017-14230-c356bb58",
        "signature_type":  "Function",
        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/commit/6bd33275368edfa71ae117de895488584678ac79",
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    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-08T11:47:22Z"