CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-40017

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-08-28 Modified 2026-09-03 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-28
Last modified
2026-09-03
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message header whose values are chosen to collide in an internal hash table, which makes the IMAP THREAD command consume CPU disproportionate to the size of the message. This is a separate issue from CVE-2026-40014 and is not addressed by that fix. Whenever a mail client issues a THREAD command on the affected mailbox, this can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Monitor system for abnormal CPU usage, kill the offending process and remove the offending message from the affected mailbox. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

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