CVE-2026-52687

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Aug 28, 2026
Updated
Aug 28, 2026
Reserved
Jun 8, 2026

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Description

An attacker that has valid credentials can select a compression algorithm for the IMAP connection whose decompression state requires a large amount of memory, and open several such connections. The memory limit of the process is reached with only a few connections, terminating the process and all connections it handles, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP compression. Alternatively limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process, though this has a performance impact. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HOX

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
OX Dovecot ProOpen-Xchange GmbH
  • 2.3.11 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
  • 2.3.11 to before 2.4.5Affected

References

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