CVE-2026-73208

dovecot: An attacker that holds a token intended for a different purpose can authenticate, because when an OAuth2 token respon...

CVE-2026-73208 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
0.0031
24th percentile

An attacker that holds a token intended for a different purpose can authenticate, because when an OAuth2 token response does not contain a scope claim, the audience claim is used in its place and checked against the configured required scopes. These are different concepts, and the audience claim does not describe what a token is allowed to do. A token that grants no relevant permissions can be accepted because its intended recipient value happens to match a configured scope name, granting access that should have been denied. It also hides an identity provider misconfiguration where scopes are not being issued at all. Ensure the identity provider issues a scope claim for all tokens used with Dovecot, and that configured scope names do not match audience values. 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-2026-73208 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73208 Sep 10, 2026
dovecot · Debian 14 1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73208 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 · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 2026
dovecot-debugsource · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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 · 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 · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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 · amzn 2023 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109 Sep 28, 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 · 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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