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CVE-2026-40205

CVE-2026-40205 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.9 MEDIUM

Reported by OX · Published August 28, 2026

An attacker that holds an OAuth2 token granting only part of the required scopes can authenticate, because when more than one scope is required in the configuration, the remote token validation paths accept a token that carries only one of them, while the local token validation path correctly requires all of them. The configured authorization policy is not enforced, so a token that was granted only part of the required permissions is accepted where it should have been rejected. Use local token validation where tokens can be validated locally. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Open-Xchange GmbHOX Dovecot Pro2.3.11.2, 3.0.0, 3.1.0
Open-Xchange GmbHOX Dovecot CE2.3.11.2
alpinedovecot0, 0, 0
Open-Xchange GmbHOX Dovecot Pro2.3.11.2, 3.0.0, 3.1.0
Open-Xchange GmbHOX Dovecot CE2.3.11.2

Timeline

  • Aug 28, 2026 CVE Published
  • Aug 28, 2026 Coalition ESS Score
  • Aug 29, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 2, 2026 Security Advisory
  • Sep 12, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 17, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 24, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 26, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Sep 29, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Oct 3, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Oct 8, 2026 EPSS Score

References

  • vendor-advisory
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