CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe imap-hibernate service is vulnerable to an attacker with valid credentials who can exploit it by opening multiple connections and sending invalid commands, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds read and process crash. This vulnerability can disrupt hibernated IMAP sessions, resulting in service degradation for users. Organizations using this service should prioritize remediation by disabling IMAP hibernation and updating to a secure version to mitigate the risk.
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 open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.