CVE-2026-73209 (GCVE-0-2026-73209)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 10:12 – Updated: 2026-08-28 15:53
VLAI
Summary
An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-28 14:32 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro Affected: 2.3.0 , < 2.3.22.2 (semver)
Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.0.7 (semver)
Affected: 3.1.0 , < 3.1.6 (semver)
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Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot CE Affected: 2.3.0 , < 2.4.5 (semver)
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