Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Dovecot before 1.0beta3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via unspecified vectors involving (1) "potential hangs" in the APPEND command and "potential crashes" in (2) dovecot-auth and (3) imap/pop3-login
Published Feb 16, 2006
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.67%
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Dovecot before 1.0beta3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via unspecified vectors involving (1) "potential hangs" in the APPEND command and "potential crashes" in (2) dovecot-auth and (3) imap/pop3-login. NOTE: vector 2 might be related to a double free vulnerability.
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 1.0beta2
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue only affected Dovecot versions 1.0beta1 and 1.0beta2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 shipped with an earlier version of Dovecot and is therefore not vulnerable to this issue.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.67% (0.01670) | 75.94th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.63% (0.01631) | 73.05th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.91% (0.00911) | 74.22th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.83% (0.01834) | 88.76th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 27, 2024 | 1.83% (0.01834) | 88.38th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.83% (0.01834) | 86.38th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 64.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 40.54th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (8)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18870 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011367.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16672 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0549 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-0730 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24709 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0730
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0730
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://secunia.com/advisories/18870 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011367.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16672 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0549 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-0730 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24709 | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0730 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0730 |
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