Low severity3.7NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2026· Updated Sep 3, 2026
CVE-2026-40203
CVE-2026-40203
Description
When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response sizes depend on both attacker-supplied mail and other mail in the same mailbox. An attacker that can send mail to a user and can also observe the sizes of that user's IMAP traffic can confirm whether the body of a small message matches a guessed text. Recovery of arbitrary unknown content was not demonstrated, but the attack can disclose whether a secret-like message body matches a candidate. Disable IMAP compression. 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