CVE-2026-27851

CRITICALNVD 9.19.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.1 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (34th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 7.4 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2026-05-12) is not newer than that change (2026-10-26), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-29467 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

When safe filter is used with variable expansion, all following pipelines on the same string are incorrectly interpreted as safe too, enabling unsafe data to be unescaped. This can enable SQL / LDAP injection attacks when used in authentication. Avoid using safe filter until on fixed version. No publicly available exploits are known.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
41
EG Risk 41/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
34th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-02). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

May 12, 2026

Last Modified

October 26, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 16, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2476471 – (CVE-2026-27851) CVE-2026-27851 dovecot: Dovecot: SQL/LDAP injection via incorrect safe filter interpretation with variable expansion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2476471
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-27851 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27851

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-27851(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntudovecot-submissiond (1:2.4.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.1) @ resolute2026-11-02ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dovecot—
  • every version up to 2.4.4-r0: fixed in 2.4.4-r0
—
Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dovecot—
  • every version up to 2.4.4-r0: fixed in 2.4.4-r0
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dovecot1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6 ... 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u5 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u6: fixed in 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u6
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dovecot1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6 ... 1:2.4.3+dfsg1-2 (10 versions)
  • every version up to 1:2.4.4+dfsg1-1: fixed in 1:2.4.4+dfsg1-1
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 91× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 470 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 371 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 17:14 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 17:14 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  4. 2026-11-02 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 17:26 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 17:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  7. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  8. 2026-10-31 17:37 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-31 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  10. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  11. 2026-10-30 17:49 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-30 17:49 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-30 17:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  14. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  15. 2026-10-29 18:02 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-29 18:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  17. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  18. 2026-10-28 18:11 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-28 18:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  20. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  21. 2026-10-27 18:16 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-27 18:16 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-27 18:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  24. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  25. 2026-10-26 18:28 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-26 18:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  2. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 17:59 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 17:59 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-25 17:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  6. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  7. 2026-10-25 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-24 17:37 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-24 17:37 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-24 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  11. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  12. 2026-10-23 17:49 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-23 17:49 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-23 17:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  15. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  16. 2026-10-22 18:00 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-22 18:00 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-22 18:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  19. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  20. 2026-10-21 18:01 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-21 18:01 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-21 18:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  23. 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  24. 2026-10-20 18:13 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-20 18:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  26. 2026-10-20 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  27. 2026-10-19 18:22 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-19 18:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  29. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  30. 2026-10-18 18:32 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-18 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  32. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  33. 2026-10-18 03:51 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-17 18:44 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-17 18:44 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-17 18:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  37. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  38. 2026-10-16 18:56 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-16 18:56 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-16 18:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  41. 2026-10-16 16:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  42. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  43. 2026-10-15 16:11 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-15 16:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  45. 2026-10-14 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  46. 2026-10-14 10:15 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-10-14 10:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  48. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  49. 2026-10-13 08:40 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-13 08:40 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-13 08:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  52. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  53. 2026-10-12 16:17 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-12 08:49 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-12 08:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xfpv-rrgm-4qqr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
  56. 2026-10-11 19:59 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-10-11 17:12 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-11 14:43 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  60. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  61. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  62. 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  63. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  64. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  65. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  66. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  67. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  68. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  69. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  70. 2026-09-30 06:28 UTCOSV refresh
  71. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  72. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  73. 2026-09-26 00:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  74. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-27851?
CVE-2026-27851 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 12, 2026. When safe filter is used with variable expansion, all following pipelines on the same string are incorrectly interpreted as safe too, enabling unsafe data to be unescaped. This can enable SQL / LDAP injection attacks when used in authentication. Avoid using safe filter until on fixed version. No…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-27851 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-27851 was published on May 12, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 26, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-27851 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-27851 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (34th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-27851?
CVE-2026-27851 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-27851?
A fix for CVE-2026-27851 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-27851 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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