CVE-2026-33604
An attacker that can get Dovecot to relay a message, for example through Sieve redirect or submission relay, can use a crafted line ending in the message body to bypass the outbound protection that prevents message content from being interpreted as SMTP commands. A downstream mail server that hasn't yet fixed the SMTP smuggling vulnerability can be tricked into treating part of the message body as new SMTP commands, allowing injection of spoofed email. This is the same vulnerability class as CVE-2023-51764 and CVE-2023-51766. Where you control the receiving mail servers, ensure they reject bare carriage returns in message data. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Published:Aug 28, 2026
Last Modified:Sep 1, 2026
EPS:Aug 28, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00269
CVSS Score:5.9
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Open-xchange
Product
Ox Dovecot Ce
Open-xchange
Ox Dovecot Ce
Vendor
Open-xchange
Product
Ox Dovecot Pro
Open-xchange
Ox Dovecot Pro
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
