CVE-2026-27859

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.03%

Published: 3/27/2026Modified: 3/30/2026

Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2026-27859

Description

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 CPU time. Use MTA capabilities to limit RFC 2231 MIME parameters in mail messages, or upgrade to fixed version where the processing is limited. No publicly available exploits are known.

Affected packages (2)

Alpine/dovecotfrom 0, < 2.4.3-r0
Debian/dovecotfrom 0, < 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-27859
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-27859