CVE-2026-40015
MEDIUM
4,3
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: low
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: low
Description
AI Translation Available
An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
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Out-of-bounds Read
DraftCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Confidentiality
Availability
Other
Potential Impacts:
Read Memory
Bypass Protection Mechanism
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart
Varies By Context
Applicable Platforms
Languages:
Memory-Unsafe, C, C++
Technologies:
ICS/OT
https://documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/security/advisories/csaf/2026/ox…