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CVE-2026-42391

Dovecot

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.

CVSS 7.5EPSS 0%Risk 0.75
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Published
2026-08-28 12:16:29
Affected versions
unknown
Type
Other
Last modified
2026-08-28 12:16:29
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H