CVE-2026-47085
Published:July 16, 2026
Updated:August 04, 2026
An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. URLAUTH token forgery can occur via a missing mboxkey. If an attacker knew a folder name on the victim's account for which the victim had never issued an auth URL, they could forge a working URLAUTH token by computing an HMAC-SHA1 value with a predictable key, giving them read access to the mailbox. (URLAUTH is an obscure feature, meaning that the odds of any user actually being susceptible to this attack are very low. Perhaps no public clients use URLAUTH.)
Affected Packages
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=cyrus-imapd-3.10.0 <cyrus-imapd-3.10.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version cyrus-imapd-3.10.3https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=cyrus-imapd-3.8.0 <cyrus-imapd-3.8.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version cyrus-imapd-3.8.7https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=cyrus-imapd-3.12.0 <cyrus-imapd-3.12.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version cyrus-imapd-3.12.3Related Resources (2)
Do you need more information?
Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
LOW
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
4
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers
EPSS
Base Score:
0.20