CVE-2017-12843

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2017-12843 · Published 22/08/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-12843 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting cyrus imap (cyrusimap).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 68.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cyrus imap cyrusimap	`≤ 3.0.2`	No fix yet

Description

Cyrus IMAP before 3.0.3 allows remote authenticated users to write to arbitrary files via a crafted (1) SYNCAPPLY, (2) SYNCGET or (3) SYNCRESTORE command.

References

cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd commit 53c4137 · Third Party Advisory
cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd commit 5edadcf · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6M32R5QPCCNT57BVH3NPV5WVJFSTDP7Q
cyrusimap.org/imap/download/release-notes/3.0/x/3.0.3.html · Release Notes

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