CVE-2013-6171 (GCVE-0-2013-6171)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-12-09 11:00
Modified
2024-08-06 17:29
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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