CVE-2026-42008

dovecot: Forwarding information received from a host listed as a trusted proxy is not kept separate from Dovecot's own authent...

CVE-2026-42008 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
0.0024
14th percentile

Forwarding information received from a host listed as a trusted proxy is not kept separate from Dovecot's own authentication fields, so a value sent by that host can be injected as an internal authentication field. Any host permitted to act as a trusted proxy can authenticate as any user without knowing that user's password. This affects deployments whose password database honours a field that permits authentication without a password. Deployments that do not configure trusted proxies are not affected. Restrict the list of trusted proxy networks to hosts that are fully under your control. 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-2026-42008 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42008 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 14 1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42008 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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 · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-mysql · Fedora 43 1:2.4.5-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-E8A6485109 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot-mysql · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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 · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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 · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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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