CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to exploit the IMAP service by selecting a memory-intensive compression algorithm, leading to potential denial of service as the process consumes excessive memory and terminates. Organizations using IMAP should prioritize addressing this issue by disabling IMAP compression or limiting the number of concurrent connections per process to mitigate the risk. While no public exploits are currently available, the medium severity indicates that proactive measures are advisable to prevent service degradation.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
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Original NVD Description
An attacker that has valid credentials can select a compression algorithm for the IMAP connection whose decompression state requires a large amount of memory, and open several such connections. The memory limit of the process is reached with only a few connections, terminating the process and all connections it handles, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP compression. Alternatively limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process, though this has a performance impact. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.