CVE-2026-42391 PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 27.04.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

An unauthenticated attacker can send an IMAP ID command with a very large number of parameters before logging in, which causes memory and CPU usage to grow disproportionately. The login process can be terminated by the out-of-memory handling, which also terminates all other connections handled by the same process. This can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP logins. Limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process. This has a performance impact though. 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