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Medium · 4.0 CVE-2026-47085 EUVD-2026-45008GHSA-8jrh-wq6h-53c4

An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. URLAUTH token forgery can occur via a missing mboxkey. If an attacker …

Published Jul 16, 2026 · Updated Jul 16, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. URLAUTH token forgery can occur via a missing mboxkey. If an attacker knew a folder name on the victim's account for which the victim had never issued an auth URL, they could forge a working URLAUTH token by computing an HMAC-SHA1 value with a predictable key, giving them read access to the mailbox. (URLAUTH is an obscure feature, meaning that the odds of any user actually being susceptible to this attack are very low. Perhaps no public clients use URLAUTH.)

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cyrusimap Cyrus IMAP < 3.12.3 3.12.3

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 cyrus-imapd 3.12.3-1 —
Debian 13 cyrus-imapd 3.10.2-1+deb13u2 —
Debian 12 cyrus-imapd 3.6.1-4+deb12u5 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 cyrus-imapd No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cyrus-imapd No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS cyrus-imapd No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS cyrus-imapd No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS cyrus-imapd No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS cyrus-imapd No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 cyrus-imapd 3.8.7-bp160.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21368-1

Advisories 2

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