CVE-2026-47088

low

Description

An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. There is heap exposure in nested MIME comment parsing. An authenticated IMAP user could craft an email message containing an RFC 822 comment ending with a backslash. When parsing the message, the server would read past the message's end in memory, and read into the heap, returning the read content to the user.

References

https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/release-notes/index.html

https://www.cyrusimap.org/3.12/imap/download/release-notes/3.12/x/3.12.3.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-16

Updated: 2026-07-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low