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Medium 6.5Published Aug 28, 2026

CVE-2026-73209An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash.

Updated under an hour ago ()

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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 has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-674
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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