PT-2026-83050 · Dovecot · Dovecot

CVE-2026-27852

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Published

2026-08-28

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Updated

2026-09-02

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions dovecot versions prior to 2.4.5-1.1
Description An attacker can send a crafted email with headers containing an excessive number of email addresses or MIME parameters. When the message is parsed via IMAP, it leads to excessive memory consumption, which can exhaust the process memory limit and terminate it, resulting in a denial of service for the affected user.
Recommendations Update to version 2.4.5-1.1.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

AZL-98289
CVE-2026-27852
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11629-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21720-1
SUSE-SU-2026:3919-1

Affected Products

Dovecot