A mail message containing excessive amount of RFC 2231 MIME parameters causes LMTP to use too much CPU. A suitably formatted mail message causes mail delivery process to consume large amounts of CPU time. Use MTA capabilities to limit RFC 2231 MIME parameters in mail messages, or upgrade to fixed version where the processing is limited. 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-2026-0001.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 5.3 · dovecot, open-xchangeNVD modified 2026-10-26 00:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:open-xchange:dovecot:*:*:*:*:pro:*:*:*