An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently… (CVE-2026-40015)
An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently… (CVE-2026-40015)
Description
An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.3medium
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- GHSA-qx86-c9pp-83v2
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.4.0
- Aliases
- ["CVE-2026-40015"]
- Ecosystems
- []
- Database Specific Severity
- MODERATE
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a91a7bdacd9273b49065174
Added to database: 08/28/2026, 15:22:37 UTC
Last updated: 08/28/2026, 15:22:37 UTC
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