High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2026· Updated Sep 3, 2026
CVE-2026-27852
CVE-2026-27852
Description
An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message whose headers contain a very large number of email addresses or MIME parameters, which causes excessive memory usage when the message is later parsed. The message is still delivered, but reading it over IMAP can exhaust the memory limit of the process and terminate it, causing denial of service for the affected user. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Affected products
8- osv-coords7 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/dovecotpkg:rpm/almalinux/dovecot-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/dovecot-mysqlpkg:rpm/almalinux/dovecot-pgsqlpkg:rpm/almalinux/dovecot-pigeonholepkg:rpm/opensuse/dovecot24&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/dovecot24&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.4-160000.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.5-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1News mentions
1- Dovecot: 17 Vulnerabilities Including Critical Flaws Disclosed Together on August 28, 2026Vypr Intelligence · Aug 28, 2026