Medium [CVE-2026-47084] Unauthorized mailbox deletion via ACL bypass
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-47084 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. The LOCALDELETE command bypassed ACL checks.
An authenticated but non-admin user could invoke the admin-only LOCALDELETE IMAP command and delete mailboxes for which they had no permissions. This allowed them to delete mailboxes for which they did not have the necessary permissions, leading to unauthorized data integrity compromise.
This Moderate flaw in Cyrus IMAP allows an authenticated user to bypass Access Control List (ACL) restrictions, enabling unauthorized mailbox deletion. The impact is considered Moderate as it requires prior authentication and specific command usage, limiting exploitation to existing users.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N). Weakness: CWE-266.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: cyrus-imapd.
- 3.12.2
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
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