An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

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Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:45:00 +0000

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Title Stack Exhaustion in OX Dovecot Causing IMAP Denial of Service

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000

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Description An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Weaknesses CWE-674
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T15:53:12.773Z

Reserved: 2026-08-11T13:14:10.017Z

Link: CVE-2026-73209

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-28T12:16:31.247

Modified: 2026-08-28T20:19:45.167

Link: CVE-2026-73209

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Updated: 2026-08-28T13:30:07Z

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