dovecot: When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response siz...
CVE-2026-40203 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.
When IMAP compression is enabled, the same compression state is reused across responses in a session, so response sizes depend on both attacker-supplied mail and other mail in the same mailbox. An attacker that can send mail to a user and can also observe the sizes of that user's IMAP traffic can confirm whether the body of a small message matches a guessed text. Recovery of arbitrary unknown content was not demonstrated, but the attack can disclose whether a secret-like message body matches a candidate. Disable IMAP compression. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| dovecot · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u7 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40203 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| dovecot · Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40203 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| dovecot · Debian 14 | 1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40203 | 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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