CVE-2026-33603

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 46/100
Published: 2026-05-12 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Adjacent No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Adjacent
AC: High
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: None
A: None

Description

Attacker can use a specially crafted base64 exchange between Dovecot and Client to fake SCRAM TLS channel binding. This requires that the attacker is able to position itself between Dovecot and the client connection. If successful, the attacker can eavesdrop communications between Dovecot and client as MITM proxy. Install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
dovecot dovecot < 2.4.4
open-xchange dovecot < 3.1.5

Bug Bounty Relevance

46 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.21%
Raw Score 0.002140
Percentile 11.7%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00214
2026-10-28
0.00214

Intelligence Sources

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