CVE-2026-42006CWE-400CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-42006

Medium · published May 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
56.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP. The fix in CVE-2026-27857 was incomplete, only blocking one way of doing this, so there was still another way left open. In particular, the fix was for closing braces, but you could still use open braces to bypass the limit. Using excessive bracing, attacker can cause memory usage up to configured memory limit. Install fixed version, or configure vsz_limit for imap process to low value. No publicly available exploits are known.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00824 · 56.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-05-12T18:17Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
dovecot/dovecot< 2.4.42.4.4
open-xchange/dovecot< 3.1.53.1.5
References (15)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 MAY 13:28Z
    An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP
    cvelistv5