CVE-2026-40015

dovecot: An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid comma...

CVE-2026-40015 is fixed in 12 products on 1 platform, first by SUSE-SU-2026:23595-1, released September 1, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
4.3
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0055
46th percentile

An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
dovecot · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u7 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40015 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40015 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 14 1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40015 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-debugsource · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-devel · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-mysql · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot23 · sles 15.6 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1 Sep 14, 2026
dovecot23 · sles 15.7 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1 Sep 14, 2026
dovecot24 · opensuse-leap 16.0 2.4.4-160000.2.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21720-1 Sep 1, 2026
dovecot24 · sles 16.0 2.4.4-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23595-1 Sep 1, 2026

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