When safe filter is used with variable expansion, all following pipelines on the same string are incorrectly interpreted as safe too, enabling unsafe data to be unescaped. This can enable SQL / LDAP injection attacks when used in authentication. Avoid using safe filter until on fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/security/advisories/csaf/2026/oxdc-adv-2026-0002.json Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 9.1 · dovecot, open-xchangeNVD modified 2026-10-26 18:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:open-xchange:dovecot:*:*:*:*:pro:*:*:*