Priority MEDIUM 41
When safe filter is used with variable expansion, all following pipelines on the same string are incorrectly interpreted as safe too, enabling unsafe data to be unescaped.
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00406 · Published 2026-05-12 · Will not fix CWE-235
Priority MEDIUM 40
Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00804 · Published 2026-03-27 · Partial fix CWE-400
Priority MEDIUM 40
ManageSieve AUTHENTICATE command crashes when using literal as SASL initial response.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.0073 · Published 2026-03-27 · Partial fix CWE-20
Priority LOW 39
When sending invalid base64 SASL data, login process is disconnected from the auth server, causing all active authentication sessions to fail.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00464 · Published 2026-03-27 · Fix deferred CWE-20
Priority LOW 38
Dovecot SQL based authentication can be bypassed when auth_username_chars is cleared by admin.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00402 · Published 2026-03-27 · Will not fix CWE-89
Priority LOW 35
Doveadm credentials are verified using direct comparison which is susceptible to timing oracle attack.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00399 · Published 2026-03-27 · Partial fix CWE-287
Priority LOW 34
Sending "NOOP (((...)))" command with 4000 parenthesis open+close results in ~1MB extra memory usage.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00679 · Published 2026-03-27 · Partial fix CWE-400
Priority LOW 32
Dovecot OTP authentication is vulnerable to replay attack under specific conditions.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8· Network · No auth · User interaction · EPSS 0.00316 · Published 2026-03-27 · Fix deferred CWE-294
Priority LOW 31
Attacker can use a specially crafted base64 exchange between Dovecot and Client to fake SCRAM TLS channel binding.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8· Adjacent network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00214 · Published 2026-05-12 · Fix deferred CWE-99
Priority LOW 30
A mail message containing excessive amount of RFC 2231 MIME parameters causes LMTP to use too much CPU.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00381 · Published 2026-03-27 · Fix deferred CWE-400
Priority LOW 30
When dovecot has been configured to use per-domain passwd files, and they are placed one path component above /etc, or slash has been added to allowed characters, path traversal can happen if the domain component is dire…
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00435 · Published 2026-03-27 · Fix deferred CWE-22
Priority LOW 29
Attacker can upload a malicious Sieve script over ManageSieve service (or locally) to bypass configured CPU time limits for Sieve up to 130 times of the configured limit.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5· Network · Low privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00338 · Published 2026-05-12 · Fix deferred CWE-400
Priority LOW 24
If auth_username_chars is empty, it is possible to inject arbitrary LDAP filter to Dovecot's LDAP authentication.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00297 · Published 2026-03-27 · Fix deferred CWE-90
Priority LOW 21
An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3· Network · Low privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00621 · Published 2026-05-12 · Partial fix CWE-400
Priority LOW 20
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.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3· Network · Low privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.0026 · Published 2026-05-12 · Fix deferred CWE-284
Priority LOW 20
Dovecot has provided a script to use for attachment to text conversion.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3· Network · Low privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00294 · Published 2026-03-27 · Fix deferred CWE-200