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High 7.5Published Aug 28, 2026

CVE-2026-27852An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message whose headers contain a very large number of email addresses or MIME parameters, which causes excessive memory usage when the message is l…

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It affects Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro and 1 other product. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message whose headers contain a very large number of email addresses or MIME parameters, which causes excessive memory usage when the message is later parsed. The message is still delivered, but reading it over IMAP can exhaust the memory limit of the process and terminate it, causing denial of service for the affected user. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
OX
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Aug 28, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro
open_xchange:ox_dovecot_pro (from the name)
from 2.3.0 before 2.3.22.2; from 3.0.0 before 3.0.7; from 3.1.0 before 3.1.6
CNA record
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot CE
open_xchange:ox_dovecot_ce (from the name)
from 2.3.0 before 2.4.5
CNA record

References

  • vendor-advisory

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