RHSA-2020:4655 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: cyrus-imapd security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 4, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for cyrus-imapd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and SIEVE support.

Security Fix(es):

  • cyrus-imapd: privilege escalation in HTTP request (CVE-2019-18928)

  • cyrus-imapd: lmtpd component created mailboxes with administrator privileges if the "fileinto" was used, bypassing ACL checks (CVE-2019-19783)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:4655 — Red Hat Security Advisory: cyrus-imapd security update | PulseLinux