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.

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Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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Title Denial of Service via Large Header Attack in OX Dovecot

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000

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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.
Weaknesses CWE-400
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T10:30:30.825Z

Reserved: 2026-02-24T08:46:09.373Z

Link: CVE-2026-27852

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-28T12:16:27.330

Modified: 2026-08-28T12:16:27.330

Link: CVE-2026-27852

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Updated: 2026-08-28T12:45:02Z

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