Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: dovecot security update

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

RHEL 10 : dovecot (RHSA-2026:42091)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:42091 advisory. Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and...

ALSA-2026:41988 Important: dovecot security update

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages. Security Fixes: doveco...

CVE-2026-42006

An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP. The fix in CVE-2026-27857 was incomplete, only blocking one way of doing this, so there was still another way left open. In particular, the fix was for closing braces, but you could still use open braces to bypass t...

USN-8365-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly treated some variable expansion pipelines as safe in authentication filters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL or LDAP injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. CVE-2026-27851 It was discovered...