CVE-2026-27852 PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 24.02.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message whose headers contain a very large number of email addresses or MIME parameters, which causes excessive memory usage when the message is later parsed. The message is still delivered, but reading it over IMAP can exhaust the memory limit of the process and terminate it, causing denial of service for the affected user. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor Open-Xchange GmbH
Product OX Dovecot Pro
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.3.0 to 2.3.22.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.0.0 to 3.0.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.1.0 to 3.1.6 (excl.)
Vendor Open-Xchange GmbH
Product OX Dovecot CE
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.3.0 to 2.4.5 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe