cve-2007-6598
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-01-04 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 16:11
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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.
References
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