CVE-2026-42006

INFO Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 0/100
Published: 2026-05-12 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP. The fix in CVE-2026-27857 was incomplete, only blocking one way of doing this, so there was still another way left open. In particular, the fix was for closing braces, but you could still use open braces to bypass the limit. Using excessive bracing, attacker can cause memory usage up to configured memory limit. Install fixed version, or configure vsz_limit for imap process to low value. No publicly available exploits are known.

Weakness Classification (2)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
dovecot dovecot < 2.4.4
open-xchange dovecot < 3.1.5

Bug Bounty Relevance

0 / 100

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.62%
Raw Score 0.006210
Percentile 49.7%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00621
2026-10-28
0.00621

Intelligence Sources

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