CVE-2026-42007

dovecot: An attacker that has valid credentials can use a Sieve script with the editheader extension to trigger a use-after-fr...

CVE-2026-42007 is fixed in 12 products on 1 platform, first by RHSA-2026:79371, released August 28, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
9.1
important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0035
28th percentile

An attacker that has valid credentials can use a Sieve script with the editheader extension to trigger a use-after-free in the mail editing code, and to write memory contents beyond the intended buffer into the delivered mail. This causes memory leak and opportunity to do memory corruption during mail delivery, which can crash the delivery process and may allow execution of arbitrary code in the context of that process. Disable the Sieve editheader extension. 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-2026-42007 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42007 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 14 1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42007 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · RHEL 10 2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 RHSA-2026:79371 Aug 28, 2026
dovecot · RHEL 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 RHSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot · RHEL 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 RHSA-2026:80825 Oct 13, 2026
dovecot · almalinux 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ALSA-2026:79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot · almalinux 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ALSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot · almalinux 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ALSA-2026:80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot · ol 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ELSA-2026-79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot · ol 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ELSA-2026-76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot · ol 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ELSA-2026-80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot · rocky 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 RLSA-2026:79371 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot · rocky 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 RLSA-2026:76763 Oct 7, 2026
dovecot · rocky 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 RLSA-2026:80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-debugsource · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-debugsource · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-devel · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-devel · RHEL 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 RHSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-devel · RHEL 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 RHSA-2026:80825 Oct 13, 2026
dovecot-devel · almalinux 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ALSA-2026:79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-devel · almalinux 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ALSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-devel · almalinux 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ALSA-2026:80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-devel · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-devel · ol 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ELSA-2026-79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-devel · ol 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ELSA-2026-76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-devel · ol 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ELSA-2026-80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-mysql · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-mysql · RHEL 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 RHSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-mysql · RHEL 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 RHSA-2026:80825 Oct 13, 2026
dovecot-mysql · almalinux 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ALSA-2026:79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-mysql · almalinux 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ALSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-mysql · almalinux 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ALSA-2026:80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-mysql · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-mysql · ol 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ELSA-2026-79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-mysql · ol 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ELSA-2026-76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-mysql · ol 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ELSA-2026-80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · RHEL 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 RHSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · RHEL 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 RHSA-2026:80825 Oct 13, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · almalinux 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ALSA-2026:79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · almalinux 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ALSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · almalinux 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ALSA-2026:80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · ol 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ELSA-2026-79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · ol 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ELSA-2026-76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-pgsql · ol 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ELSA-2026-80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · RHEL 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 RHSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · RHEL 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 RHSA-2026:80825 Oct 13, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · almalinux 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ALSA-2026:79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · almalinux 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ALSA-2026:76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · almalinux 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ALSA-2026:80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · ol 10 1:2.3.21-19.el10_2.8 ELSA-2026-79371 Oct 8, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · ol 8 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10 ELSA-2026-76763 Oct 6, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole · ol 9 1:2.3.16-18.el9_8.8 ELSA-2026-80825 Nov 7, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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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