Description
An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Published: 2026-08-28
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
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Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000

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Description An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Weaknesses CWE-674
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T10:31:05.358Z

Reserved: 2026-08-11T13:14:10.017Z

Link: CVE-2026-73209

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-28T12:16:31.247

Modified: 2026-08-28T12:16:31.247

Link: CVE-2026-73209

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