CVE-2026-42008

NameCVE-2026-42008
DescriptionForwarding information received from a host listed as a trusted proxy is not kept separate from Dovecot's own authentication fields, so a value sent by that host can be injected as an internal authentication field. Any host permitted to act as a trusted proxy can authenticate as any user without knowing that user's password. This affects deployments whose password database honours a field that permits authentication without a password. Deployments that do not configure trusted proxies are not affected. Restrict the list of trusted proxy networks to hosts that are fully under your control. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
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Debian Bugs1146018

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dovecot (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u6vulnerable
trixie (security), trixie1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u6vulnerable
forky, sid1:2.4.5+dfsg1-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dovecotsource(unstable)1:2.4.5+dfsg1-11146018

Notes

https://documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/security/advisories/html/2026/oxdc-adv-2026-0003.html#cve-2026-42008-xclient-forward-bare-token-not-namespaced-allows-nopassword-injection-via-trusted-proxy

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