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CVE-2026-40020

4.3 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed
NVD · CVE.org

Attacker can use the IMAP SETACL command to inject the anyone permission to user's dovecot-acl file even if imap_acl_allow_anyone=no. This causes folders to be spammed to all users. The impact is limited to being able to spam folders to other users, no unexpected access is gained. Install to fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 4.3 · 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:*:*:*

References 1