CVE-2017-2669

Dovecot before version 2.2.29 is vulnerable to a denial of service. When 'dict' passdb and userdb were used for user authentication, the username sent by the IMAP/POP3 client was sent through var_expand() to perform %variable expansion. Sending specially crafted %variable fields could result in excessive memory usage causing the process to crash (and restart), or excessive CPU usage causing all authentications to hang.

Database specific

{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/dovecot/core

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/dovecot/core

Events

Introduced

54d654098032d96975b70749b505fae538e97f7a

Last affected

bed84341d457ca12b3ffc2789f5ce5a50f473c17

Fixed

000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.2.26"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.28"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "267636158964568098863636960298466532724",
                "2352569610556384996954443346264017109",
                "93946251500024901057239984742115296506",
                "24637658557778190796647398033891828969",
                "211611469493583939446357562940970616992",
                "278277978705547623851111021639629407269",
                "124382171383543376698073773677944138094",
                "187087530198002650493950430766339868348",
                "162450648597069746051999601511029220517"
            ]
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/auth/db-dict.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-2669-8b3a137b",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 1242.0,
            "function_hash": "258390715530272175125914701927623207390"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "db_dict_iter_lookup_key_values",
            "file": "src/auth/db-dict.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-2669-a636a152",
        "deprecated": false
    }
]

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-07-08T15:11:12Z"

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2669.json"