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.
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| 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. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-200 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: OX
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Updated: 2026-08-28T10:30:48.341Z
Reserved: 2026-04-10T07:11:39.060Z
Link: CVE-2026-40203
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-28T12:16:28.897
Modified: 2026-08-28T12:16:28.897
Link: CVE-2026-40203
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