CVE-2026-27855
Essential information
- Published
- 27/03/2026 09:16
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 09:16
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 6.8 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N—
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- HIGH
- Integrity impact
- HIGH
- Availability impact
- NONE
- Exploit code maturity
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Attack requirements
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
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- Exploit maturity
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Description
Dovecot OTP authentication is vulnerable to replay attack under specific conditions. If auth cache is enabled, and username is altered in passdb, then OTP credentials can be cached so that same OTP reply is valid. An attacker able to observe an OTP exchange is able to log in as the user. If authentication happens over unsecure connection, switch to SCRAM protocol. Alternatively ensure the communcations are secured, and if possible switch to OAUTH2 or SCRAM. No publicly available exploits are known.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| dovecot / dovecot | cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |