Medium severity4.0NVD Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2026· Updated Jul 17, 2026
CVE-2026-47085
CVE-2026-47085
Description
An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. URLAUTH token forgery can occur via a missing mboxkey. If an attacker knew a folder name on the victim's account for which the victim had never issued an auth URL, they could forge a working URLAUTH token by computing an HMAC-SHA1 value with a predictable key, giving them read access to the mailbox. (URLAUTH is an obscure feature, meaning that the odds of any user actually being susceptible to this attack are very low. Perhaps no public clients use URLAUTH.)
Affected products
2- Range: <=3.12.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2News mentions
1- Cyrus IMAP: Nine Access Control and Auth Bypass Vulnerabilities Disclosed TogetherVypr Intelligence · Jul 17, 2026