CVE-2026-42391

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Aug 28, 2026
Updated
Aug 28, 2026
Reserved
Apr 27, 2026

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Description

An unauthenticated attacker can send an IMAP ID command with a very large number of parameters before logging in, which causes memory and CPU usage to grow disproportionately. The login process can be terminated by the out-of-memory handling, which also terminates all other connections handled by the same process. This can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP logins. Limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process. This has a performance impact though. Update to non-vulnerable 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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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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