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

2017-09-10T07:29:00.177Z

Modified

2026-04-11T04:47:44.377587Z

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 mboxlistdofind 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

Last affected

1b4c53fe2193c72657b6108ec2e44e3e20bee22c

Fixed

6bd33275368edfa71ae117de895488584678ac79

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.0.3"
        }
    ]
}

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

posttab

pretab

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14230.json"

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-04-11T04:47:44Z"

vanir_signatures

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    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/commit/6bd33275368edfa71ae117de895488584678ac79",
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "318003610013149923191349096931759050144",
            "length": 4774.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-14230-c356bb58",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "imap/mboxlist.c",
            "function": "mboxlist_do_find"
        }
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/commit/6bd33275368edfa71ae117de895488584678ac79",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
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            ]
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-14230-eb6e0977",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "imap/mboxlist.c"
        }
    }
]