CVE-2026-42007 PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 23.04.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

An attacker that has valid credentials can use a Sieve script with the editheader extension to trigger a use-after-free in the mail editing code, and to write memory contents beyond the intended buffer into the delivered mail. This causes memory leak and opportunity to do memory corruption during mail delivery, which can crash the delivery process and may allow execution of arbitrary code in the context of that process. Disable the Sieve editheader extension. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.1

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

  • Use After Free cwe