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CVE-2026-27857
published 2026-03-27

CVE-2026-27857: Sending "NOOP (((...)))" command with 4000 parenthesis open+close results in ~1MB extra memory usage. Longer commands will result in client disconnection. This…

PriorityP346high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.67%
47.6th percentile
Sending "NOOP (((...)))" command with 4000 parenthesis open+close results in ~1MB extra memory usage. Longer commands will result in client disconnection. This 1 MB can be left allocated for longer time periods by not sending the command ending LF. So attacker could connect possibly from even a single IP and create 1000 connections to allocate 1 GB of memory, which would likely result in reaching VSZ limit and killing the process and its other proxied connections. Attacker could connect possibly from even a single IP and create 1000 connections to allocate 1 GB of memory, which would likely result in reaching VSZ limit and killing the process and its other proxied connections. Install fixed version, there is no other remediation. No publicly available exploits are known.

Affected

15 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiandovecot< dovecot 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u2 (bookworm)dovecot 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u2 (bookworm)
dovecotdovecot< 2.4.42.4.4
dovecotdovecot< 2.4.32.4.3
dovecotdovecot
dovecotdovecot>= 0 < 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u21:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u2
dovecotdovecot>= 0 < 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u41:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u4
dovecotdovecot>= 0 < 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.71:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.7
dovecotdovecot>= 0 < 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2ubuntu6.31:2.3.21+dfsg1-2ubuntu6.3
dovecotdovecot>= 0 < 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-5ubuntu4.11:2.4.1+dfsg1-5ubuntu4.1
open-xchangedovecot< 3.1.53.1.5
open-xchangedovecot< 2.3.22.12.3.22.1
open-xchangedovecot>= 3.0.0 < 3.0.53.0.5
open-xchangedovecot>= 3.1.0 < 3.1.43.1.4
open-xchange_gmbhox_dovecot_pro<= 3.0.5
ubuntudovecot

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.3MEDIUM
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu5.3MEDIUM
vendor_debian4.3MEDIUM
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