Bug 2491519 (CVE-2026-47240)

Summary: CVE-2026-47240 net-imap: Net::IMAP: Command injection via non-synchronizing literals
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akostadi, amasferr, dmayorov, eshamard, jlledo, jvasik, kaycoth, pantinor, rblanco, rhel-process-autobot, tsedmik, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in Net::IMAP, a Ruby library that provides Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary IMAP commands. This is possible when an IMAP server does not support non-synchronizing literals, leading to the misinterpretation of data as new commands. This command injection could enable unauthorized actions on the IMAP server.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-22 21:02:05 UTC
Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Prior to 0.6.5 and 0.5.15, several Net::IMAP commands accept a "raw data" argument that is sent verbatim after validation to prevent command injection. However, if a server does not support non-synchronizing literals, it may still be possible to inject arbitrary IMAP commands inside non-synchronizing literals.  A server without support for non-synchronizing literals may interpret the "+}\r\n" as the end of a malformed command line and respond with a tagged BAD. In that case, the contents of the literal will be interpreted as one or more new pipelined commands, allowing a CRLF command injection attack to succeed. This affects criteria for #search and #uid_search; search_keys for #sort, #thread, #uid_sort, and #uid_thread; and attr for #fetch and #uid_fetch. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.5 and 0.5.15.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-05 09:40:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:50728 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50728

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-05 11:21:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:50773 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50773

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-05 12:04:30 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:50778 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50778

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-05 16:37:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:50828 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50828

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2026-08-05 16:40:24 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:50827 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50827