ALPINE-CVE-2026-42391

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-42391
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-42391.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-42391
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-42391
Published
2026-08-28T12:16:29Z
Modified
2026-08-31T08:30:05Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An unauthenticated attacker can send an IMAP ID command with a very large number of parameters before logging in, which causes memory and CPU usage to grow disproportionately. The login process can be terminated by the out-of-memory handling, which also terminates all other connections handled by the same process. This can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP logins. Limit the number of connections handled by a single imap-login process. This has a performance impact though. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.23 / dovecot

Package

Name
dovecot
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/dovecot?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.4.5-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-42391.json"

Alpine:v3.24 / dovecot

Package

Name
dovecot
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/dovecot?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.4.5-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-42391.json"