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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-42008 EUVD-2026-67673GHSA-hwmp-h522-jmhg

Forwarding information received from a host listed as a trusted proxy is not kept separate from Dovecot's own authentication fields, so a v…

Published Aug 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 2026 · Assigned by OX

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Open-Xchange OX Dovecot Pro 2.3.4 – < 2.3.22.2, 3.0.0 – < 3.0.7, 3.1.0 – < 3.1.6 2.3.22.2
Open-Xchange OX Dovecot CE 2.3.4 – < 2.4.5 2.4.5

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 dovecot 1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1 —
Debian 13 dovecot 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7 —
Debian 12 dovecot 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u7 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS dovecot No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS dovecot No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dovecot No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS dovecot No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS dovecot No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS dovecot No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS dovecot No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
SLES 15 SP6 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
SLES 15 SP5 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
SLES 15 SP4 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 dovecot24 2.4.4-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23595-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
SLES 16.0 dovecot24 2.4.4-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23595-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 dovecot23 2.3.21.1-150200.76.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 dovecot24 2.4.4-160000.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21720-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 dovecot +4 1:2.3.20-1.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-3109
Amazon Linux 2 dovecot +4 1:2.2.36-6.amzn2.1.4 ALAS2-2026-3935

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 dovecot No fix yet —

Advisories 6

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