Attacker can use the IMAP SETACL command to inject the anyone permission to user's dovecot-acl file even if imap_acl_allow_anyone=no. This causes folders to be spammed to all users. The impact is limited to being able to spam folders to other users, no unexpe…
CVE-2026-27857
Descripción
Sending "NOOP (((...)))" command with 4000 parenthesis open+close results in ~1MB extra memory usage. Longer commands will result in client disconnection. This 1 MB can be left allocated for longer time periods by not sending the command ending LF. So attacker could connect possibly from even a single IP and create 1000 connections to allocate 1 GB of memory, which would likely result in reaching VSZ limit and killing the process and its other proxied connections. Attacker could connect possibly from even a single IP and create 1000 connections to allocate 1 GB of memory, which would likely result in reaching VSZ limit and killing the process and its other proxied connections. Install fixed version, there is no other remediation. No publicly available exploits are known.
Datos: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Se publican tal como los indican las fuentes, en inglés.
Productos y versiones afectados
Referencias y parches
- https://documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/security/advisories/csaf/2026/oxdc-adv-2026-0001.json vendor-advisoryVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13498
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13830
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13857
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17602
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17625
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17626
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17628
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17630
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18053
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19149
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19364
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19453
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19455
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26564
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27857
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452179
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-27857.json
Coincidencias CPE (NVD) (4)
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*< 2.4.3cpe:2.3:a:open-xchange:dovecot:*:*:*:*:pro:*:*:*< 2.3.22.1cpe:2.3:a:open-xchange:dovecot:*:*:*:*:pro:*:*:*≥ 3.0.0 < 3.0.5cpe:2.3:a:open-xchange:dovecot:*:*:*:*:pro:*:*:*≥ 3.1.0 < 3.1.4