CVEPublished 2026-08-28Modified 2026-09-030 articles on news4 live referencesNVD data

CVE-2026-73209

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
24
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 76% of all CVEs
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.

Timeline
Published 2026-08-28
Modified 2026-09-03

External references

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Known PoCs on GitHub

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