CVE-2026-42007: Open-Xchange GmbH Ox Dovecot CE

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker that has valid credentials can use a Sieve script with the editheader extension to trigger a use-after-free in the mail editing code, and to write memory contents beyond the intended buffer into the delivered mail. This causes memory leak and opportunity to do memory corruption during mail delivery, which can crash the delivery process and may allow execution of arbitrary code in the context of that process. Disable the Sieve editheader extension. 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.