Security advisory

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  "id": "8a0e29ec43d73252fab6b7b9cdf90d94e969828588bb9e1867447d95bb1ebd61",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59028",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2025-59028",
    "summary": "When sending invalid base64 SASL data, login process is disconnected from the auth server, causing all active authentication sessions to fail. Invalid BASE64 data can be used to DoS a vulnerable server to break concurrent logins. Install fixed version or disable concurrency in login processes (heavy perfomance penalty on large deployments). No publicly available exploits are known.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-59028",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-59028"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
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      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://github.com/dovecot/core",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
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                  "fixed": "c1b22ef978ca72999e254b2f3964b3d32d1a4979"
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          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-59028.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:50.107647377Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/security/advisories/csaf/2026/oxdc-adv-2026-0001.json",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/59xxx/CVE-2025-59028.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59028"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-20"
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        "cna_assigner": "OX",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
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              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "3.1.0"
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                    "last_affected": "2.4.0"
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                "strategy": "StandardRange"
              }
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      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 518599,
  "published_at": "2026-03-27T08:10:15.246+00:00"
}