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GHSA-F2Q7-XH76-M34J

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 03:38 – Updated: 2025-04-11 04:16

Details

checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.

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CVE-2013-6171 (GCVE-0-2013-6171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-09 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:29

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

5 references

URL	Tags
http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/	x_refsource_MISC
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPasswo…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/54808	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-Nov…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2013-11-03 00:00

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GHSA-F2Q7-XH76-M34J

CVE-2013-6171 (GCVE-0-2013-6171)

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