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.
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
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.23 | dovecot | 2.4.5-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-33604 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | dovecot | 2.4.5-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-33604 |
| Debian:12 | dovecot | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u7 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33604 |
| Debian:13 | dovecot | 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33604 |
| Debian:14 | dovecot | 1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33604 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | dovecot | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-33604 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | dovecot | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-33604 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | dovecot | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-33604 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| 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