CVE-2008-1218
Published Mar 10, 2008
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters, which are treated as argument delimiters that enable the skip_password_check field to be specified.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-255
Vendor comments
- Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of Dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5.
Configurations
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"versionEndIncluding": "1.0.12"
},
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"versionEndIncluding": "1.1"
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}
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