4.3Medium

CVE-2026-42395

Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro; Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot CE Published: (2 months ago)

Description

A host listed as a trusted proxy can send forwarding information containing a NUL byte, which crashes the login process on the following login attempt. The login process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for logins. Deployments that do not configure trusted proxies are not affected. Restrict the list of trusted proxy networks to hosts that are fully under your control. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-400

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot CE 2.3.0 – < 2.4.5
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro 2.3.0 – < 2.3.22.2, 3.0.0 – < 3.0.7, 3.1.0 – < 3.1.6

References and patches