PT-2026-83050
CVE-2026-27852
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Published
2026-08-28
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Updated
2026-10-21
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV: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.
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