CVE-2025-59032
CVE-2025-59032 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence
ManageSieve AUTHENTICATE command crashes when using literal as SASL initial response. This can be used to crash ManageSieve service repeatedly, making it unavailable for other users. Control access to ManageSieve port, or disable the service if it's not needed. Alternatively upgrade to a fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, OX
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
1%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
7.5
HIGH
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
Yes
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Partial
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (2)
Products (18)
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH | — | — | cvelistV5 |
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-20
- CWE-229
Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.
- T1562.003Impair Defenses: Impair Command History Logging
- T1574.006Hijack Execution Flow: Dynamic Linker Hijacking
- T1574.007Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable
References
18 on the record
- documentation.open-xchange.com/dovecot/security/advisories/csaf/2026/oxdc-adv-2026-0001.json
vendor-advisory
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59032
vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452172
issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-59032.json
x_sadp-csaf-vex
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26564
vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17602
vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13498
vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19149
vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
Elsewhere on this site
- open xchangeevery CVE for this vendor
- redhatevery CVE for this vendor
- CWE-20other pages naming this weakness
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.