Dovecot
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Latest 2.4.5 Aug 28, 2026
Lifecycle
| Branch | Latest | Released | End of life |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 2.4.5 | Jan 24, 2025 | — · maintained |
| 2.3 | 2.3.21.1 | Dec 22, 2017 | — · maintained |
| 2.2 | 2.2.36.4 | Apr 11, 2013 | Jan 24, 2025 · ended |
| 2.1 | 2.1.16 | Feb 16, 2012 | Dec 22, 2017 · ended |
| 2.0 | 2.0.15 | Aug 16, 2010 | Apr 11, 2013 · ended |
Recent releases
securityFixes CVE-2026-27851: When safe filter is used with variable expansion, all following pipelines on the same string are incorrectly interpreted as safe too, enabling unsafe data to be unescaped. This can enable SQL / LDA…
securityFixes CVE-2026-33603: Attacker can use a specially crafted base64 exchange between Dovecot and Client to fake SCRAM TLS channel binding. This requires that the attacker is able to position itself between Dovecot and the…
securityFixes CVE-2026-40016: Attacker can upload a malicious Sieve script over ManageSieve service (or locally) to bypass configured CPU time limits for Sieve up to 130 times of the configured limit. Attacker can use this to d…
securityFixes CVE-2026-24031: Dovecot SQL based authentication can be bypassed when auth_username_chars is cleared by admin. This vulnerability allows bypassing authentication for any user and user enumeration. Do not clear aut…
securityFixes CVE-2026-27858: Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory.
Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeat…
securityFixes CVE-2025-59032: ManageSieve AUTHENTICATE command crashes when using literal as SASL initial response. This can be used to crash ManageSieve service repeatedly, making it unavailable for other users. Control access…
securityFixes CVE-2022-30550: An issue was discovered in the auth component in Dovecot 2.2 and 2.3 before 2.3.20. When two passdb configuration entries exist with the same driver and args settings, incorrect username_filter and…
securityFixes CVE-2026-0394: When dovecot has been configured to use per-domain passwd files, and they are placed one path component above /etc, or slash has been added to allowed characters, path traversal can happen if the d…
Security advisories
4.3 CVE-2026-42006 An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP. The fix in CVE-2026-27857 was incomplete, only blocking one way of doing this, so there was still another way left…
5.3 CVE-2026-40016 Attacker can upload a malicious Sieve script over ManageSieve service (or locally) to bypass configured CPU time limits for Sieve up to 130 times of the configured limit. Attacker can use this to d…
3.1 CVE-2026-40020 Attacker can use the IMAP SETACL command to inject the anyone permission to user's dovecot-acl file even if imap_acl_allow_anyone=no. This causes folders to be spammed to all users. The impact is l…
6.8 CVE-2026-33603 Attacker can use a specially crafted base64 exchange between Dovecot and Client to fake SCRAM TLS channel binding. This requires that the attacker is able to position itself between Dovecot and the…
7.4 CVE-2026-27851 When safe filter is used with variable expansion, all following pipelines on the same string are incorrectly interpreted as safe too, enabling unsafe data to be unescaped. This can enable SQL / LDA…
7.5 CVE-2026-27858 Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory.
Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeat…
5.3 CVE-2026-27859 A mail message containing excessive amount of RFC 2231 MIME parameters causes LMTP to use too much CPU. A suitably formatted mail message causes mail delivery process to consume large amounts of CP…
3.7 CVE-2026-27860 If auth_username_chars is empty, it is possible to inject arbitrary LDAP filter to Dovecot's LDAP authentication. This leads to potentially bypassing restrictions and allows probing of LDAP structu…
5.3 CVE-2026-0394 When dovecot has been configured to use per-domain passwd files, and they are placed one path component above /etc, or slash has been added to allowed characters, path traversal can happen if the d…
7.7 CVE-2026-24031 Dovecot SQL based authentication can be bypassed when auth_username_chars is cleared by admin. This vulnerability allows bypassing authentication for any user and user enumeration. Do not clear aut…
6.8 CVE-2026-27855 Dovecot OTP authentication is vulnerable to replay attack under specific conditions. If auth cache is enabled, and username is altered in passdb, then OTP credentials can be cached so that same OTP…
7.4 CVE-2026-27856 Doveadm credentials are verified using direct comparison which is susceptible to timing oracle attack. An attacker can use this to determine the configured credentials. Figuring out the credential…
4.3 CVE-2026-27857 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…
5.3 CVE-2025-59028 When sending invalid base64 SASL data, login process is disconnected from the auth server, causing all active authentication sessions to fail. Invalid BASE64 data can be used to DoS a vulnerable se…
4.3 CVE-2025-59031 Dovecot has provided a script to use for attachment to text conversion. This script unsafely handles zip-style attachments. Attacker can use specially crafted OOXML documents to cause unintended fi…
7.5 CVE-2025-59032 ManageSieve AUTHENTICATE command crashes when using literal as SASL initial response. This can be used to crash ManageSieve service repeatedly, making it unavailable for other users. Control access…
8.8 CVE-2022-30550 An issue was discovered in the auth component in Dovecot 2.2 and 2.3 before 2.3.20. When two passdb configuration entries exist with the same driver and args settings, incorrect username_filter and…
4.8 CVE-2021-33515 The submission service in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows STARTTLS command injection in lib-smtp. Sensitive information can be redirected to an attacker-controlled address.
4.3 CVE-2020-28200 The Sieve engine in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, as demonstrated by a situation with a complex regular expression for the regex extension.
7.5 CVE-2021-29157 Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows ../ Path Traversal. An attacker with access to the local filesystem can trick OAuth2 authentication into using an HS256 validation key from an attacker-controlled locat…