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CVE-2026-0394

medium CVSS 5.3 EPSS 0.4%

When dovecot has been configured to use per-domain passwd files, and they are placed one path component above /etc, or slash has been added to allowed characters, path traversal can happen if the domain component is directory partial. This allows inadvertently reading /etc/passwd (or some other path which ends with passwd). If this file contains passwords, it can be used to authenticate wrongly, or if this is userdb, it can unexpectly make system users appear valid users. Upgrade to fixed version, or use different authentication scheme that does not rely on paths. Alternatively you can also ensure that the per-domain passwd files are in some other location, such as /etc/dovecot/auth/%d. No publicly available exploits are known.

Versions it affects

Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-0394 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

Dovecot 2.2.36

At a glance

Severity
Medium
CVSS base score
5.3 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-22
Published
2026-03-27
NVD CVE.org

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