Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2026· Updated Sep 3, 2026
CVE-2026-40015
CVE-2026-40015
Description
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.
Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/dovecot24&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/dovecot24&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 2.4.4-160000.2.1+ 1 more
- (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