CVE-2026-27852: Open-Xchange GmbH Ox Dovecot CE

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Open-Xchange GmbH Ox Dovecot CE: from 2.3.0, before 2.4.5 (fixed in 2.4.5)
• Open-Xchange GmbH Ox Dovecot Pro: from 2.3.0, before 2.3.22.2 (fixed in 2.3.22.2); from 3.0.0, before 3.0.7 (fixed in 3.0.7); from 3.1.0, before 3.1.6 (fixed in 3.1.6)

Published 2026-08-28. Last modified 2026-09-03.