Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting cyrus-imapd package, versions <2.5.10-3ubuntu1.1+esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.1% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-CYRUSIMAPD-1584963
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed1 Sept 2021

Introduced: 1 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-33582  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 cyrus-imapd to version 2.5.10-3ubuntu1.1+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cyrus-imapd package and not the cyrus-imapd package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Cyrus IMAP before 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (multiple-minute daemon hang) via input that is mishandled during hash-table interaction. Because there are many insertions into a single bucket, strcmp becomes slow. This is fixed in 3.4.2, 3.2.8, and 3.0.16.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1