CVE-2026-27858

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Mar 27, 2026
Updated
Jul 15, 2026
Reserved
Feb 24, 2026

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Description

Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory. Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process. Protect access to managesieve protocol, or install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HOX
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
OX Dovecot ProOpen-Xchange GmbH
  • 2.3.0 and earlierAffected
  • 3.1.0 and earlierAffected
  • 2.4.0 and earlierAffected

References

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