{ "document": { "category": "csaf_base", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "legal_disclaimer", "text": "The Netherlands Cyber Security Center (henceforth: NCSC-NL) maintains this portal to enhance access to its information and vulnerabilities. The use of this information is subject to the following terms and conditions:\n\nThe vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal are gathered by NCSC-NL from a variety of open sources, which the user can retrieve from other platforms. NCSC-NL makes every reasonable effort to ensure that the content of this portal is kept up to date, and that it is accurate and complete. Nevertheless, NCSC-NL cannot entirely rule out the possibility of errors, and therefore cannot give any warranty in respect of its completeness, accuracy or real-time keeping up-to-date. NCSC-NL does not control nor guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information obtained from these external sources. The vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal are intended solely for the convenience of professional parties to take appropriate measures to manage the risks posed to the cybersecurity. No rights can be derived from the information provided therein.\n\nNCSC-NL and the Kingdom of the Netherlands assume no legal liability or responsibility for any damage resulting from either the use or inability of use of the vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal. This includes damage resulting from the inaccuracy of incompleteness of the information contained in it.\nThe information on this page is subject to Dutch law. All disputes related to or arising from the use of this portal regarding the disclosure of vulnerabilities will be submitted to the competent court in The Hague. This choice of means also applies to the court in summary proceedings." } ], "publisher": { "category": "coordinator", "contact_details": "cert@ncsc.nl", "name": "National Cyber Security Centre", "namespace": "https://www.ncsc.nl/" }, "title": "CVE-2026-27858", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-03-31T15:22:57.184973Z", "generator": { "date": "2026-02-17T15:00:00Z", "engine": { "name": "V.E.L.M.A", "version": "1.7" } }, "id": "CVE-2026-27858", "initial_release_date": "2026-03-27T08:38:52.132787Z", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-03-27T08:38:52.132787Z", "number": "1", "summary": "CVE created.| Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| CVSS created.| Products connected (3).| References created (1).| CWES updated (1)." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T08:38:56.228398Z", "number": "2", "summary": "NCSC Score created." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T09:25:02.765252Z", "number": "3", "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| CVSS created.| References created (1).| CWES updated (1)." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T09:25:10.714271Z", "number": "4", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T11:11:02.926181Z", "number": "5", "summary": "Source connected.| CVE status created. (valid)| Products connected (2).| References created (3)." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T11:11:12.398279Z", "number": "6", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T11:34:49.199223Z", "number": "7", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T19:42:19.134377Z", "number": "8", "summary": "Unknown change." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T19:42:23.111410Z", "number": "9", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T21:06:32.941213Z", "number": "10", "summary": "Source connected.| CVE status created. (valid)| EPSS created." }, { "date": "2026-03-27T21:06:36.829707Z", "number": "11", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-28T07:41:29.734314Z", "number": "12", "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Products connected (2)." }, { "date": "2026-03-28T07:41:32.268571Z", "number": "13", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-28T07:42:07.421927Z", "number": "14", "summary": "Description created for source." }, { "date": "2026-03-28T09:28:41.922396Z", "number": "15", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-28T12:28:43.119217Z", "number": "16", "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| CVSS created.| Products connected (10).| Product Identifiers created (5).| Product Remediations created (10).| References created (3).| CWES updated (1).| Vendor_assessment created." }, { "date": "2026-03-28T12:28:46.700732Z", "number": "17", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." }, { "date": "2026-03-31T11:09:45.938694Z", "number": "18", "summary": "Products connected (1).| References created (1)." }, { "date": "2026-03-31T11:09:51.279295Z", "number": "19", "summary": "NCSC Score updated." } ], "status": "interim", "version": "19" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:unknown/<2.4.0", "product": { "name": "vers:unknown/<2.4.0", "product_id": "CSAFPID-5937944" } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:unknown/<2.4.3", "product": { "name": "vers:unknown/<2.4.3", "product_id": "CSAFPID-5937945" } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Dovecot" } ], 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"product_name", "name": "SUSE openSUSE" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "SUSE" }, { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:deb/unknown", "product": { "name": "vers:deb/unknown", "product_id": "CSAFPID-1411598" } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "dovecot" } ], "category": "product_family", "name": "bookworm" }, { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:deb/unknown", "product": { "name": "vers:deb/unknown", "product_id": "CSAFPID-1411534" } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "dovecot" } ], "category": "product_family", "name": "bullseye" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "Debian" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-27858", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-770", "name": "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory.\r\n Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process. Protect access to managesieve protocol, or install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.", "title": "cveprojectv5 - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/27xxx/CVE-2026-27858.json" }, { "category": "description", "text": "Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory.\r\n Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process. Protect access to managesieve protocol, or install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.", "title": "nvd - https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-27858" }, { "category": "description", "text": "Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory.\r Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process. Protect access to managesieve protocol, or install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.", "title": "debian - https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-27858" }, { "category": "description", "text": "Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory.\nAttacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process. Protect access to managesieve protocol, or install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.\nA flaw was found in dovecot. An unauthenticated and remote attacker can send a crafted message that causes managesieve to allocate an excessive amount of memory, forcing managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process, resulting in a denial of service.\nThis flaw allows an unauthenticated and remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted message. Due to this reason, this vulnerability has been rated with an important severity.", "title": "redhat - https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2026-27858.json" }, { "category": "other", "text": "0.00047", "title": "EPSS" }, { "category": "other", "text": "4.0", "title": "NCSC Score" }, { "category": "other", "text": "There is product data available from source Certbundde, Is related to a product by vendor Suse", "title": "NCSC Score top increasing factors" }, { "category": "other", "text": "There is product data available from source Debian, Is related to a product by vendor Open Source, Is related to (a version of) an uncommon product, Is related to an uncommon product vendor", "title": "NCSC Score top decreasing factors" }, { "category": "details", "text": "Severity: 3\n", "title": "Vendor assessment" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-5158173", "CSAFPID-5924461", "CSAFPID-5924462", "CSAFPID-5937944", "CSAFPID-5937945", "CSAFPID-1411534", "CSAFPID-1411598", "CSAFPID-1439315", "CSAFPID-1439317", "CSAFPID-1439319", "CSAFPID-1439321", "CSAFPID-2858634", "CSAFPID-5958201", "CSAFPID-5958202", "CSAFPID-5958203", "CSAFPID-5958204", "CSAFPID-5958205", "CSAFPID-1317176" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "external", "summary": "Source - cveprojectv5", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/27xxx/CVE-2026-27858.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Source - nvd", "url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-27858" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Source - certbundde", "url": "https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2026/wid-sec-w-2026-0891.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Source - first", "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?limit=10000&offset=0" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Source - debian", "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-27858" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Source - redhat", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2026-27858.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd; redhat", "url": "https://documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/security/advisories/csaf/2026/oxdc-adv-2026-0001.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Reference - certbundde", "url": "https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2026/wid-sec-w-2026-0891.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Reference - certbundde", "url": "https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-0891" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Reference - certbundde", "url": "https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.org/thread/I4KFFV4IKP6M5MS67SWYHKDSDMSNILQG/" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Reference - redhat", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27858" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Reference - redhat", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27858" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Reference - certbundde", "url": "https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/OBSVSMBRLSXDJ3TFA22MX7UVQIY2WIIN/" } ], "remediations": [ { "category": "mitigation", "details": "To mitigate this vulnerability, protect access to the managesieve protocol by configuring firewall rules to restrict access to the managesieve port and only allow connections from trusted IP addresses or networks.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-1439315", "CSAFPID-1439317", "CSAFPID-1439319", "CSAFPID-1439321", "CSAFPID-2858634", "CSAFPID-5958201", "CSAFPID-5958202", "CSAFPID-5958203", "CSAFPID-5958204", "CSAFPID-5958205" ] } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-1317176", "CSAFPID-1411534", "CSAFPID-1411598", "CSAFPID-1439315", "CSAFPID-1439317", "CSAFPID-1439319", "CSAFPID-1439321", "CSAFPID-2858634", "CSAFPID-5158173", "CSAFPID-5924461", "CSAFPID-5924462", "CSAFPID-5937944", "CSAFPID-5937945", "CSAFPID-5958201", "CSAFPID-5958202", "CSAFPID-5958203", "CSAFPID-5958204", "CSAFPID-5958205" ] } ], "title": "CVE-2026-27858" } ] }