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RHSA-2026:80825

dovecot security update

Released 2026-10-12 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →

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Fixes 8 records

Priority LOW 39

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.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00449 Published 2026-08-28 Partial fix · 2.3.22.2, 3.0.7 +2 CWE-400
Priority LOW 39

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…

CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1 Network Low privileges No interaction EPSS 0.00345 Published 2026-08-28 Partial fix · 2.3.22.2, 3.0.7 +2 CWE-416
Priority LOW 39

An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message whose headers contain a very large number of email addresses or MIME parameters, which causes excessive memory usage when the message is later parsed.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.0043 Published 2026-08-28 Partial fix · 2.3.22.2, 3.0.7 +2 CWE-400
Priority LOW 34

An attacker that holds a token intended for a different purpose can authenticate, because when an OAuth2 token response does not contain a scope claim, the audience claim is used in its place and checked against the conf…

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00312 Published 2026-08-28 Fixed in 2.3.22.2, 3.0.7 +2 CWE-287
Priority LOW 27

An unauthenticated attacker can send a truncated quoted argument to the ManageSieve login process, which makes it spin in an infinite loop consuming CPU.

CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00371 Published 2026-08-28 Partial fix · 2.4.5 CWE-400