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ghsa-f2q7-xh76-m34j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 03:38

Modified

2022-05-14 03:38

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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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
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  "id": "GHSA-f2q7-xh76-m34j",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T03:38:05Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:38:05Z",
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    },
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    },
    {
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      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/54808"
    },
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    },
    {
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cve-2013-6171

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2013-12-09 11:00

Modified

2024-08-06 17:29

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/	x_refsource_MISC
	http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://secunia.com/advisories/54808	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-November/000264.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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n/a

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