CVE-2026-27858
Attacker can send a specifically crafted message before authentication that causes managesieve to allocate large amount of memory. Attacker can force managesieve-login to be unavailable by repeatedly crashing the process. Protect access to managesieve protocol, or install fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Versions it affects
Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-27858 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.
At a glance
- Severity
- High
- CVSS base score
- 7.5 out of 10
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
- EPSS
- 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of scored vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Published
- 2026-03-27
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