CVE-2026-27858
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.05%Published: 3/27/2026Modified: 5/1/2026
Description
Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory. Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process. Protect access to managesieve protocol, or install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/dovecotfrom 0, < 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |