CVE-2026-42391: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro
An unauthenticated attacker can send an IMAP ID command with a very large number of parameters before logging in, which causes memory and CPU usage to grow disproportionately. The login process can be terminated by the out-of-memory handling, which also terminates all other connections handled by the same process. This can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP logins. Limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process. This has a performance impact though. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
CVE-2026-42391: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro
Description
An unauthenticated attacker can send an IMAP ID command with a very large number of parameters before logging in, which causes memory and CPU usage to grow disproportionately. The login process can be terminated by the out-of-memory handling, which also terminates all other connections handled by the same process. This can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP logins. Limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process. This has a performance impact though. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.5high
Affected software
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- OX
- Date Reserved
- 2026-04-27T08:53:58.839Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a916f8aacd9273b49cf9211
Added to database: 08/28/2026, 11:22:50 UTC
Last updated: 08/29/2026, 01:51:59 UTC
Views: 8
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