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Unscored USN-4993-1 1 CVE

dovecot vulnerabilities

Published Jun 21, 2021 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Kirin discovered that Dovecot incorrectly escaped kid and azp fields in JWT
tokens. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to validate tokens
using arbitrary keys. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.10 and Ubuntu
21.04. (CVE-2021-29157)

Fabian Ising and Damian Poddebniak discovered that Dovecot incorrectly
handled STARTTLS when using the SMTP submission service. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to inject plaintext commands before
STARTTLS negotiation. (CVE-2021-33515)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS dovecot 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.4

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-29157
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-33515