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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1218

Original release date:03/10/2008

Last revised:03/08/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters, which are treated as argument delimiters that enable the skip_password_check field to be specified.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.8 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/12/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of Dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Dovecot-news] 20080309 v1.0.13 and v1.1.rc3 released

Hyperlink:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Dovecot-news] 20080309 Security hole #6: Some passdbs allowed users to log in without a valid password

Hyperlink:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32151

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32151