CVE-2026-40203 PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 10.04.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response sizes depend on both attacker-supplied mail and other mail in the same mailbox. An attacker that can send mail to a user and can also observe the sizes of that user's IMAP traffic can confirm whether the body of a small message matches a guessed text. Recovery of arbitrary unknown content was not demonstrated, but the attack can disclose whether a secret-like message body matches a candidate. Disable IMAP compression. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 3.7

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

  • Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor cwe