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  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2026-05-09T19:38:33Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ruby/net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via large iteration count in SCRAM authentication",
    "id" : "2468500",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2468500"
  },
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    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-606",
  "details" : [ "A flaw was found in Net::IMAP, a Ruby library for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality. A hostile server can exploit this vulnerability during SCRAM-SHA1 or SCRAM-SHA256 (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism - Secure Hash Algorithm 1 or 256) authentication by sending an excessively large iteration count value. This can lead to a computational denial-of-service attack, causing the client process to become unresponsive." ],
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    "package_name" : "3scale-amp2/zync-rhel9",
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  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
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    "package_name" : "ruby",
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  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
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    "package_name" : "ruby4.0",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
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  }, {
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  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby3.3",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby3.4",
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  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
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  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42256\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42256\nhttps://github.com/ruby/net-imap/commit/158d0b505074397cdb5ceb58935e42dd2bcfa612\nhttps://github.com/ruby/net-imap/commit/808001bc45c06f7297a7e96d341279e041a7f7f4\nhttps://github.com/ruby/net-imap/commit/99f59eab6064955a23debd95410263ad144df758\nhttps://github.com/ruby/net-imap/releases/tag/v0.4.24\nhttps://github.com/ruby/net-imap/releases/tag/v0.5.14\nhttps://github.com/ruby/net-imap/releases/tag/v0.6.4\nhttps://github.com/ruby/net-imap/security/advisories/GHSA-87pf-fpwv-p7m7" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-42256",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "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.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}