CVE-2026-73209: Open-Xchange GmbH Ox Dovecot CE

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. 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.