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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.3 Medium

CVE-2026-40015

An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and c

Description

An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.3.0 to < 2.3.22.2affected
  • 3.0.0 to < 3.0.7affected
  • 3.1.0 to < 3.1.6affected

Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot CE

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.3.0 to < 2.4.5affected

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