CVE-2019-3814
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-27 12:20
Modified
2024-08-04 19:19
Severity ?
7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
It was discovered that Dovecot before versions 2.2.36.1 and 2.3.4.1 incorrectly handled client certificates. A remote attacker in possession of a valid certificate with an empty username field could possibly use this issue to impersonate other users.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3467
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3814Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2019-February/114575.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3467
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3814Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2019-February/114575.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
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Vendor Product Version
dovecot dovecot Version: 2.2.36.1
Version: 2.3.4.1
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