CVE-2025-59031: dovecot
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-59031 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in dovecot. EPSS estimates a 0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19.5% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 5Timeline
- 27-03-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 27-03-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- NVDNIST4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.28%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
20%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.28% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Alpine1 product
- dovecot≥ 3.0.0, < 2.4.3-r0
Debian1 product
- dovecot< 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u2 | < 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u4 | < 1:2.4.3+dfsg1-1
Dovecot1 product
- dovecot< 2.4.3
Open-xchange1 product
- dovecot< 2.3.22.1 | ≥ 3.0.0, < 3.1.3
Open-xchange gmbh1 product
- ox dovecot pro≤ 2.3.0
Ubuntu1 product
- dovecotAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.7 | < 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2ubuntu6.3 | < 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-5ubuntu4.1
6 vendors · 6 products