CVE-2025-59031

medium
Published 2026-03-27 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Dovecot has provided a script to use for attachment to text conversion. This script unsafely handles zip-style attachments. Attacker can use specially crafted OOXML documents to cause unintended files on the system to be indexed and subsequently ending up in FTS indexes. Do not use the provided script, instead, use something else like FTS tika. No publicly available exploits are known.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u4
sid Fixed 1:2.4.3+dfsg1-1
forky Fixed 1:2.4.3+dfsg1-1
bullseye Fixed 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u3
bookworm Fixed 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
dovecotdovecot{"endExcluding":"2.4.3"}2.4.3
open-xchangedovecot{"endExcluding":"2.3.22.1"}2.3.22.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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