Medium severity · published Aug 28, 2026
CVE-2026-33604
An attacker that can get Dovecot to relay a message, for example through Sieve redirect or submission relay, can use a crafted line ending in the message body to bypass the…
5.9
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An attacker that can get Dovecot to relay a message, for example through Sieve redirect or submission relay, can use a crafted line ending in the message body to bypass the outbound protection that prevents message content from being interpreted as SMTP commands. A downstream mail server that hasn't yet fixed the SMTP smuggling vulnerability can be tricked into treating part of the message body as new SMTP commands, allowing injection of spoofed email. This is the same vulnerability class as CVE-2023-51764 and CVE-2023-51766. Where you control the receiving mail servers, ensure they reject bare carriage returns in message data. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
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OX Dovecot CE · Open-Xchange GmbH
2.3.0 before 2.4.5 · source: vendor
OD
OX Dovecot Pro · Open-Xchange GmbH
2.3.0 before 2.3.22.2; 3.0.0 before 3.0.7; 3.1.0 before 3.1.6 · source: vendor
Affected product
OD
OX Dovecot CE
Open-Xchange GmbH
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