7.1

CVE-2026-61915: cyrus imap Double Free

CVSS: 7.1v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-61915DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61915
Published 09-09-2026Last modified 10-09-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-61915 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Double Free vulnerability in cyrus imap. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.26%
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 1 · Related 1

Timeline

  1. 09-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Cyrus IMAP before 3.12.4. There is a VPATCH BYPARAM double-free. An authenticated calendar user could crash a Cyrus CalDAV worker with a PATCH containing PATCH-ACTION="BYPARAM@..." against a resource with two or more properties of the matched kind. The memory holding the selector would be freed once on each iteration over the properties.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

16%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.26% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.26%

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

Cyrus1 product
  • imap< 3.8.8 | ≥ 3.9.0, < 3.10.4 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.12.4
Cyrusimap1 product
  • cyrus_imap< 3.8.8 | ≥ 3.9.0, < 3.10.4 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.12.4
Debian1 product
  • cyrus-imapdAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 3.12.4-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • cyrus-imapdAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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