CVE-2025-59028

high

Published 2026-03-27 · Modified 2026-04-30

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

When sending invalid base64 SASL data, login process is disconnected from the auth server, causing all active authentication sessions to fail. Invalid BASE64 data can be used to DoS a vulnerable server to break concurrent logins. Install fixed version or disable concurrency in login processes (heavy perfomance penalty on large deployments). No publicly available exploits are known.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.4.3+dfsg1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.4.3+dfsg1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u4`
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
dovecot	dovecot	`{"endExcluding":"2.4.3"}`	`2.4.3`
open-xchange	dovecot	`{"endExcluding":"3.1.2"}`	`3.1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.