CRLF Injection Affecting dovecot package, versions [2.3.0,2.4.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DOVECOT-20078949
  • published24 Sept 2026
  • disclosed28 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-33604  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-93  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dovecot to version 2.4.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CRLF Injection through the message relay process. An attacker can inject unauthorized SMTP commands by crafting a message with a specific line ending, causing a downstream mail server to interpret part of the message body as new SMTP commands and accept spoofed email.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1