<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Dovecot on kalfaoglu.net</title><link>https://blog.kalfaoglu.net/tags/dovecot/</link><description>Recent content in Dovecot on kalfaoglu.net</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.kalfaoglu.net/tags/dovecot/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Eight CVEs, One IMAP Server: Patching the Dovecot Security Bundle</title><link>https://blog.kalfaoglu.net/posts/2026-05-04-dovecot-security-advisory-en/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.kalfaoglu.net/posts/2026-05-04-dovecot-security-advisory-en/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In late March, the Dovecot team published advisory &lt;a href="https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Mar/13"&gt;OXDC-ADV-2026-0001&lt;/a&gt; — a bundle of eight CVEs covering everything from pre-authentication path traversal to SQL injection to multiple denial-of-service vectors. If Dovecot is the IMAP daemon on your mail server (it almost certainly is), this deserves your attention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is a breakdown of what matters, in roughly descending order of alarm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-serious-ones"&gt;The Serious Ones&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CVE-2026-24031 — SQL injection auth bypass (CVSS 7.7, HIGH)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>