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Dovecot
by Dovecot · last CVE May 12, 2026
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CVE-2019-11500
9.8
62%
Aug 29
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings
Affected: before 2.2.36.4; 2.3.0 before 2.3.7.2
CVE-2026-27851
9.1
0%
May 12
When safe filter is used with variable expansion, all following pipelines on the same string are incorrectly interpreted as safe too, enabling unsafe data to be unescaped
Affected: before 2.4.4
CVE-2022-30550
8.8
2%
Jul 17
An issue was discovered in the auth component in Dovecot 2.2 and 2.3 before 2.3.20
Affected: 2.3 before 2.4.0; 2.2
CVE-2026-24031
8.2
0%
Mar 27
Dovecot SQL based authentication can be bypassed when auth_username_chars is cleared by admin
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2019-7524
7.8
1%
Mar 28
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root
Affected: before 2.2.36.3; 2.3.0 before 2.3.5.1
CVE-2026-27858
7.5
1%
Mar 27
Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2026-27857
7.5
1%
Mar 27
Sending "NOOP (((...)))" command with 4000 parenthesis open+close results in ~1MB extra memory usage
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2025-59032
7.5
1%
Mar 27
ManageSieve AUTHENTICATE command crashes when using literal as SASL initial response
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2025-59028
7.5
0%
Mar 27
When sending invalid base64 SASL data, login process is disconnected from the auth server, causing all active authentication sessions to fail
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2020-25275
7.5
5%
Jan 4
Dovecot before 2.3.13 has Improper Input Validation in lda, lmtp, and imap, leading to an application crash via a crafted email message with certain choices for ten thousand MIME…
Affected: before 2.3.13
CVE-2020-12674
7.5
6%
Aug 12
In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted RPA request will crash the auth service because a length of zero is mishandled
Affected: before 2.3.11.3
CVE-2020-12673
7.5
6%
Aug 12
In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted NTLM request will crash the auth service because of an out-of-bounds read
Affected: before 2.3.11.3
CVE-2020-12100
7.5
5%
Aug 12
In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, uncontrolled recursion in submission, lmtp, and lda allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted e-mail…
Affected: before 2.3.11.3
CVE-2020-10957
7.5
7%
May 18
In Dovecot before 2.3.10.1, unauthenticated sending of malformed parameters to a NOOP command causes a NULL Pointer Dereference and crash in submission-login, submission, or lmtp
Affected: before 2.3.10.1
CVE-2020-7046
7.5
51%
Feb 12
lib-smtp in submission-login and lmtp in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandles truncated UTF-8 data in command parameters, as demonstrated by the unauthenticated triggering of a…
Affected: 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3
CVE-2019-11494
7.5
2%
May 8
In the IMAP Server in Dovecot 2.3.3 through 2.3.5.2, the submission-login service crashes when the client disconnects prematurely during the AUTH command
Affected: 2.3.3 through 2.3.5.2
CVE-2019-11499
7.5
3%
May 8
In the IMAP Server in Dovecot 2.3.3 through 2.3.5.2, the submission-login component crashes if AUTH PLAIN is attempted over a TLS secured channel with an unacceptable…
Affected: 2.3.3 through 2.3.5.2
CVE-2019-10691
7.5
3%
Apr 24
The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the…
Affected: before 2.3.5.2
CVE-2017-2669
7.5
4%
Jun 21
Dovecot before version 2.2.29 is vulnerable to a denial of service
Affected: 2.2.26 through 2.2.28
CVE-2017-15132
7.5
3%
Jan 25
A flaw was found in dovecot 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0
Affected: 2.0.0 through 2.2.33; 2.3.0
CVE-2008-4577
7.5
2%
Oct 15
The ACL plugin in Dovecot before 1.1.4 treats negative access rights as if they are positive access rights, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions
Affected: before 1.1.4
CVE-2017-14461
7.1
17%
Mar 2
A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial…
Affected: 2.2.33.2
CVE-2020-24386
6.8
3%
Jan 4
An issue was discovered in Dovecot before 2.3.13
Affected: 2.2.26 before 2.3.13
CVE-2019-3814
6.8
2%
Mar 27
It was discovered that Dovecot before versions 2.2.36.1 and 2.3.4.1 incorrectly handled client certificates
Affected: 1.1.0 before 2.2.36.1; 2.3.0 before 2.3.4.1
CVE-2026-40016
6.5
0%
May 12
Attacker can upload a malicious Sieve script over ManageSieve service (or locally) to bypass configured CPU time limits for Sieve up to 130 times of the configured limit
Affected: before 2.4.4
CVE-2026-27856
5.9
0%
Mar 27
Doveadm credentials are verified using direct comparison which is susceptible to timing oracle attack
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2026-27855
5.9
0%
Mar 27
Dovecot OTP authentication is vulnerable to replay attack under specific conditions
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2017-15130
5.9
3%
Mar 2
A denial of service flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34
Affected: before 2.2.34
CVE-2015-3420
5.9
3%
Sep 19
The ssl-proxy-openssl.c function in Dovecot before 2.2.17, when SSLv3 is disabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (login process crash) via vectors related to…
Affected: through 2.2.16
CVE-2016-8652
5.9
48%
Feb 17
The auth component in Dovecot before 2.2.27, when auth-policy is configured, allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by aborting authentication without…
Affected: through 2.2.27
CVE-2021-29157
5.5
0%
Jun 28
Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows ../ Path Traversal
Affected: 2.3.11 before 2.3.14.1
CVE-2009-3897
5.5
0%
Nov 24
Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.8 sets 0777 permissions during creation of certain directories at installation time, which allows local users to access arbitrary user accounts by…
Affected: 1.2.0 before 1.2.8
CVE-2026-33603
5.3
0%
May 12
Attacker can use a specially crafted base64 exchange between Dovecot and Client to fake SCRAM TLS channel binding
Affected: before 2.4.4
CVE-2026-27860
5.3
0%
Mar 27
If auth_username_chars is empty, it is possible to inject arbitrary LDAP filter to Dovecot's LDAP authentication
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2026-27859
5.3
0%
Mar 27
A mail message containing excessive amount of RFC 2231 MIME parameters causes LMTP to use too much CPU
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2026-0394
5.3
0%
Mar 27
When dovecot has been configured to use per-domain passwd files, and they are placed one path component above /etc, or slash has been added to allowed characters, path traversal…
Affected: before 2.4.0
CVE-2020-10967
5.3
8%
May 18
In Dovecot before 2.3.10.1, remote unauthenticated attackers can crash the lmtp or submission process by sending mail with an empty localpart
Affected: before 2.3.10.1
CVE-2020-10958
5.3
6%
May 18
In Dovecot before 2.3.10.1, a crafted SMTP/LMTP message triggers an unauthenticated use-after-free bug in submission-login, submission, or lmtp, and can lead to a crash under…
Affected: before 2.3.10.1
CVE-2020-7957
5.3
2%
Feb 12
The IMAP and LMTP components in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandle snippet generation when many characters must be read to compute the snippet and a trailing > character…
Affected: 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3
CVE-2019-19722
5.3
2%
Dec 13
In Dovecot before 2.3.9.2, an attacker can crash a push-notification driver with a crafted email when push notifications are used, because of a NULL Pointer Dereference
Affected: before 2.3.9.2
CVE-2021-33515
4.8
3%
Jun 28
The submission service in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows STARTTLS command injection in lib-smtp
Affected: before 2.3.14.1
CVE-2026-42006
4.3
1%
May 12
An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP
Affected: before 2.4.4
CVE-2026-40020
4.3
0%
May 12
Attacker can use the IMAP SETACL command to inject the anyone permission to user's dovecot-acl file even if imap_acl_allow_anyone=no
Affected: before 2.4.4
CVE-2025-59031
4.3
0%
Mar 27
Dovecot has provided a script to use for attachment to text conversion
Affected: before 2.4.3
CVE-2020-28200
4.3
2%
Jun 28
The Sieve engine in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, as demonstrated by a situation with a complex regular expression for the regex extension
Affected: before 2.3.15
CVE-2016-4983
3.3
0%
Nov 5
A postinstall script in the dovecot rpm allows local users to read the contents of newly created SSL/TLS key files
Affected: All versions, or not specified
CVE-2013-2111
–
2%
May 27
The IMAP functionality in Dovecot before 2.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via invalid APPEND parameters
Affected: through 2.2.1; 2.2; 2.2; 2.2; 2.2; 2.2; +3 more
CVE-2014-3430
–
3%
May 14
Dovecot 1.1 before 2.2.13 and dovecot-ee before 2.1.7.7 and 2.2.x before 2.2.12.12 does not properly close old connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
Affected: 1.1; 1.1; 1.1.0; 1.1.1; 1.1.2; 1.1.3; +34 more
CVE-2013-6171
–
1%
Dec 9
checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email…
Affected: through 2.2.6; 2.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.1; 2.0.2; 2.0.3; +34 more
CVE-2011-4318
–
1%
Mar 7
Dovecot 2.0.x before 2.0.16, when ssl or starttls is enabled and hostname is used to define the proxy destination, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name…
Affected: 2.0.0; 2.0.1; 2.0.2; 2.0.3; 2.0.4; 2.0.5; +10 more
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