Vulnerability · Published Aug 28, 2026 · Assigned by OX

CVE-2026-33604

Medium 5.9

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in OX Dovecot CE from Open-Xchange GmbH. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An attacker that can get Dovecot to relay a message, for example through Sieve redirect or submission relay, can use a crafted line ending in the message body to bypass the outbound protection that prevents message content from being interpreted as SMTP commands. A downstream mail server that hasn't yet fixed the SMTP smuggling vulnerability can be tricked into treating part of the message body as new SMTP commands, allowing injection of spoofed email. This is the same vulnerability class as CVE-2023-51764 and CVE-2023-51766. Where you control the receiving mail servers, ensure they reject bare carriage returns in message data. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.23dovecot2.4.5-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-33604
Alpine:v3.24dovecot2.4.5-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-33604
Debian:12dovecot1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u7DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33604
Debian:13dovecot1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33604
Debian:14dovecot1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33604
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSdovecotno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-33604
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSdovecotno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-33604
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSdovecotno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-33604

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro 2.3.0 – before 2.3.22.23.0.0 – before 3.0.73.1.0 – before 3.1.6
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot CE 2.3.0 – before 2.4.5

Weakness: CWE-655 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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