Bug 2525535 (CVE-2026-40203) - CVE-2026-40203 dovecot: Dovecot: Information disclosure via IMAP compression side-channel
Summary: CVE-2026-40203 dovecot: Dovecot: Information disclosure via IMAP compression ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-40203
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2526680
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-28 11:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-01 07:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 11:21:31 UTC
When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response sizes depend on both attacker-supplied mail and other mail in the same mailbox. An attacker that can send mail to a user and can also observe the sizes of that user's IMAP traffic can confirm whether the body of a small message matches a guessed text. Recovery of arbitrary unknown content was not demonstrated, but the attack can disclose whether a secret-like message body matches a candidate. Disable IMAP compression. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.


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