cve-2013-6171
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-12-09 11:00
Modified
2024-08-06 17:29
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.24% (0.45037)
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
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