CVE-2007-6598 (GCVE-0-2007-6598)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-04 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:11
VLAI
Summary
Dovecot before 1.0.10, with certain configuration options including use of %variables, does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache, which might allow remote authenticated users to login as a different user who has the same password.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2269 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://osvdb.org/39876 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
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Date Public
2007-12-21 00:00
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