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.
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
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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