CVE-2026-40203

State
Published
Severity
3.7 Low
Published
Aug 28, 2026
Updated
Aug 28, 2026
Reserved
Apr 10, 2026

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Description

When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response sizes depend on both attacker-supplied mail and other mail in the same mailbox. An attacker that can send mail to a user and can also observe the sizes of that user's IMAP traffic can confirm whether the body of a small message matches a guessed text. Recovery of arbitrary unknown content was not demonstrated, but the attack can disclose whether a secret-like message body matches a candidate. Disable IMAP compression. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NOX

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
OX Dovecot ProOpen-Xchange GmbH
  • 2.3.0 to before 2.3.22.2Affected
  • 3.0.0 to before 3.0.7Affected
  • 3.1.0 to before 3.1.6Affected
OX Dovecot CEOpen-Xchange GmbH
  • 2.3.0 to before 2.4.5Affected

References

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