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CVE-2019-11500

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 62.58% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-08-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
remote code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2019-11500
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
62.58%

Original NVD Description

In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.