High severity · published Aug 28, 2026
CVE-2026-42391
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
7.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OD
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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