CVE-2026-40203: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro
When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response sizes depend on both attacker-supplied mail and other mail in the same mailbox. An attacker that can send mail to a user and can also observe the sizes of that user's IMAP traffic can confirm whether the body of a small message matches a guessed text. Recovery of arbitrary unknown content was not demonstrated, but the attack can disclose whether a secret-like message body matches a candidate. Disable IMAP compression. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
CVE-2026-40203: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro
Description
When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response sizes depend on both attacker-supplied mail and other mail in the same mailbox. An attacker that can send mail to a user and can also observe the sizes of that user's IMAP traffic can confirm whether the body of a small message matches a guessed text. Recovery of arbitrary unknown content was not demonstrated, but the attack can disclose whether a secret-like message body matches a candidate. Disable IMAP compression. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
CVSS v3.1
Score 3.7low
Affected software
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- OX
- Date Reserved
- 2026-04-10T07:11:39.060Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a916f8aacd9273b49cf9207
Added to database: 08/28/2026, 11:22:50 UTC
Last updated: 08/28/2026, 23:57:13 UTC
Views: 13
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