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openSUSE 16: dovecot24 / dovecot24-backend-mysql / dovecot24-backend-pgsql / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21720-1)

🗓️ 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Dovecot 2.4.5 multiple vulns: RCE, DoS, buffer underflow, and protocol injection.

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CVE-2026-27852
28 Aug 202610:12
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CVE-2026-33263
28 Aug 202610:12
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AlpineLinux
CVE-2026-33604
28 Aug 202610:12
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CVE-2026-33605
28 Aug 202610:12
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AlpineLinux
CVE-2026-33606
28 Aug 202610:12
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alpinelinux
AlpineLinux
CVE-2026-33607
28 Aug 202610:12
alpinelinux
alpinelinux
AlpineLinux
CVE-2026-40014
28 Aug 202610:12
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alpinelinux
AlpineLinux
CVE-2026-40015
28 Aug 202610:12
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alpinelinux
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CVE-2026-40017
28 Aug 202610:12
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alpinelinux
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CVE-2026-40203
28 Aug 202610:12
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# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-SU-2026:21720-1. The text itself
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    "CVE-2026-33607",
    "CVE-2026-40013",
    "CVE-2026-40014",
    "CVE-2026-40015",
    "CVE-2026-40017",
    "CVE-2026-40018",
    "CVE-2026-40203",
    "CVE-2026-40204",
    "CVE-2026-40205",
    "CVE-2026-42007",
    "CVE-2026-42008",
    "CVE-2026-42391",
    "CVE-2026-42392",
    "CVE-2026-42393",
    "CVE-2026-42395",
    "CVE-2026-52681",
    "CVE-2026-52687",
    "CVE-2026-73208",
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openSUSE-SU-2026:21720-1 advisory.

    Update to 2.4.5.

    - CVE-2026-33263: `submission-login`: panic when `mail_max_userip_connections` is reached (bsc#1276794).
    - CVE-2026-27852: DoS by sending mail with bad header (bsc#1276799).
    - CVE-2026-33604: SMTP smuggling via missing dot-stuffing after bare carriage return (bsc#1276802).
    - CVE-2026-33605: `managesieve-login`: pre-auth crash (bsc#1276809).
    - CVE-2026-33606: `dsync`: mail content can cause `dsync` protocol injection (bsc#1276800).
    - CVE-2026-33607: IMAP `LIST` `match_sub()` exponential backtracking leading to CPU denial of service
    (bsc#1276795).
    - CVE-2026-40013: stack buffer underflow in `pigeonhole` `ManageSieve` `CHECKSCRIPT/PUTSCRIPT`
    (bsc#1276807).
    - CVE-2026-40014: CPU DoS via crafted references header (bsc#1276804).
    - CVE-2026-40015: `imap-hibernate` can be crashed (bsc#1276812).
    - CVE-2026-40017: CPU DoS via CRC32 hash collision in `strmap` (bsc#1276813).
    - CVE-2026-40018: MySQL multi-byte escaping performed incorrectly (bsc#1276810).
    - CVE-2026-40203: IMAP compression can reveal whether a small synced email body matches sender-chosen text
      (bsc#1276815).
    - CVE-2026-40204: `lda_mailbox_autocreate` can bypass ACL restrictions (bsc#1276819).
    - CVE-2026-40205: OAuth2 `passdb` scope enforcement bypass via OR semantics in remote validation path
    (bsc#1276820).
    - CVE-2026-42007: `sieve` `editheader` RCE (bsc#1276817).
    - CVE-2026-42008: `XCLIENT FORWARD= bare` token not namespaced (bsc#1276824).
    - CVE-2026-42391: `imap`: pre-login memory/CPU growth with `ID` command (bsc#1276835).
    - CVE-2026-42392: `imap-urlauth` leaks memory into user-visible error messages (bsc#1276829).
    - CVE-2026-42393: `doveadm_password` or api key length can be leaked with timing comparisons
    (bsc#1276827).
    - CVE-2026-52687: `imap`: `COMPRESS ZSTD` can cause excessive memory usage (bsc#1276837).
    - CVE-2026-42395: single NUL-byte `XCLIENT FORWARD` payload crashes (bsc#1276826).
    - CVE-2026-52681: `sieve` resource usage tracking lost when active script changes (bsc#1276828).
    - CVE-2026-73208: `auth`: `db-oauth2`: `aud` claim used as fallback for missing scope claim (bsc#1276830).
    - CVE-2026-73209: `imap-login` crash due to self-recursion on zero-output decompress chunks (bsc#1276833).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/SuSE/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'openSUSE');
var _os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^SUSE([\d.]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(_os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'openSUSE');
_os_ver = _os_ver[1];
if (os_release !~ "^(SUSE16\.0)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, 'openSUSE', '16.0', os_release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'openSUSE ' + _os_ver, cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'dovecot24-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'dovecot24-backend-mysql-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'dovecot24-backend-pgsql-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'dovecot24-backend-sqlite-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'dovecot24-devel-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'dovecot24-fts-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'dovecot24-fts-flatcurve-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'dovecot24-fts-solr-2.4.4-160000.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'dovecot24 / dovecot24-backend-mysql / dovecot24-backend-pgsql / etc');
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03 Sep 2026 00:00Current
7.8High risk
Vulners AI Score7.8
CVSS 3.19.1
EPSS0.00455
SSVC
10