4.3

CVE-2025-59031: dovecot

CVSS: 4.3v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2025-59031UBUNTU-CVE-2025-59031DEBIAN-CVE-2025-59031
Published 27-03-2026Last modified 27-03-2026

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.

Overall risk
17/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.28%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 5

Timeline

  1. 27-03-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 27-03-2026
    Last 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

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

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.28%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected 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
Open-xchange1 product
  • dovecot< 2.3.22.1 | ≥ 3.0.0, < 3.1.3
Open-xchange gmbh1 product
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

References

6 links