Bug 2525545 (CVE-2026-42391) - CVE-2026-42391 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service via IMAP ID command with excessive parameters
Summary: CVE-2026-42391 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service via IMAP ID command with e...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-42391
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2526685
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-28 11:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-12 14:57 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:76763 0 None None None 2026-10-06 16:11:10 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:79371 0 None None None 2026-10-08 17:41:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:80825 0 None None None 2026-10-12 14:57:03 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 11:22:04 UTC
An unauthenticated attacker can send an IMAP ID command with a very large number of parameters before logging in, which causes memory and CPU usage to grow disproportionately. The login process can be terminated by the out-of-memory handling, which also terminates all other connections handled by the same process. This can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP logins. Limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process. This has a performance impact though. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Comment 2 Jon Orris 2026-10-06 16:11:09 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:76763 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:76763

Comment 3 Jon Orris 2026-10-08 17:41:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:79371 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:79371

Comment 4 Jon Orris 2026-10-12 14:57:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:80825 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80825


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