CVE-2026-27859 PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 24.02.2026 Published: 27.03.2026 Updated: 27.03.2026

A mail message containing excessive amount of RFC 2231 MIME parameters causes LMTP to use too much CPU. A suitably formatted mail message causes mail delivery process to consume large amounts of CPU time. Use MTA capabilities to limit RFC 2231 MIME parameters in mail messages, or upgrade to fixed version where the processing is limited. 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:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor Open-Xchange GmbH
Product OX Dovecot Pro
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.0.2 (incl.)
  • affected from 0 to 3.1.0 (incl.)
  • affected from 0 to 2.4.0 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe