CWE-655Class

Insufficient Psychological Acceptability

Draft in the CWE catalog · 1 CVE mapped

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CVEs mapped
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Median CVSS
What it is

The product has a protection mechanism that is too difficult or inconvenient to use, encouraging non-malicious users to disable or bypass the mechanism, whether by accident or on purpose.

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CVE-2026-33604

CVE-2026-33604 - MEDIUM Severity Vulnerability

An attacker that can get Dovecot to relay a message, for example through Sieve redirect or submission relay, can use a crafted line ending in the message body to bypass the outbound protection that prevents message content from being interpreted as SMTP commands. A downstream mail server that hasn't yet fixed the SMTP smuggling vulnerability can be tricked into treating part of the message body as new SMTP commands, allowing injection of spoofed email. This is the same vulnerability class as CVE-2023-51764 and CVE-2023-51766. Where you control the receiving mail servers, ensure they reject bare carriage returns in message data. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

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The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-655
Abstraction
Class
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
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