CVE-2026-27857 (GCVE-0-2026-27857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-27 08:10 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:08
VLAI
Summary
Sending "NOOP (((...)))" command with 4000 parenthesis open+close results in ~1MB extra memory usage. Longer commands will result in client disconnection. This 1 MB can be left allocated for longer time periods by not sending the command ending LF. So attacker could connect possibly from even a single IP and create 1000 connections to allocate 1 GB of memory, which would likely result in reaching VSZ limit and killing the process and its other proxied connections. Attacker could connect possibly from even a single IP and create 1000 connections to allocate 1 GB of memory, which would likely result in reaching VSZ limit and killing the process and its other proxied connections. Install fixed version, there is no other remediation. No publicly available exploits are known.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
OX
References
URL Tags
https://documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/se… vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27857 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452179 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/v… x_sadp-csaf-vex
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26564 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17602 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13498 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19149 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13830 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19455 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19453 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18053 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17630 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17628 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17625 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17626 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13857 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19364 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Open-Xchange GmbH OX Dovecot Pro Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.3.0 (semver)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)     cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)     cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS EXTENSION (v.8.4)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.6)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.6)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.6)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.8)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.2)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.4)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 10.0)     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
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Red Hat Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.4)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::crb
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Red Hat Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.6)     cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6::crb
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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