Bug 2526679

Summary: CVE-2026-40019 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service via truncated quoted argument in ManageSieve [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vladimir Vasilev <vvasilev>
Component: dovecotAssignee: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: high    
Version: rawhideCC: anon.amish, bennie.joubert, mhlavink
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["3d96d821-8adb-4974-b1de-33c5a7a708e9"]}
Fixed In Version: dovecot-2.4.5-1.fc45 dovecot-2.4.5-1.fc43 dovecot-2.4.5-1.fc44 Doc Type: ---
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-01 07:26:16 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

An unauthenticated attacker can send a truncated quoted argument to the ManageSieve login process, which makes it spin in an infinite loop consuming CPU. This can cause degradation or denial of service for Sieve script management, and repeated connections can consume all available CPU on the server. Monitor system for abnormal CPU usage and kill the offending process. Restrict network access to the ManageSieve service to trusted clients. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-09-10 05:35:57 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e8a6485109 (dovecot-2.4.5-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e8a6485109

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-09-11 01:34:39 UTC
FEDORA-2026-8b8efbd2b8 has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-8b8efbd2b8`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-8b8efbd2b8

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-09-11 02:07:28 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e8a6485109 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-e8a6485109`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e8a6485109

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-09-11 02:27:23 UTC
FEDORA-2026-2e6b786570 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-2e6b786570`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2e6b786570

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-09-19 00:16:24 UTC
FEDORA-2026-8b8efbd2b8 (dovecot-2.4.5-1.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-09-19 00:57:32 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e8a6485109 (dovecot-2.4.5-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-09-19 01:13:46 UTC
FEDORA-2026-2e6b786570 (dovecot-2.4.5-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.