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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

7.3% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-255 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-255 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (21)

• GLSA-200803-25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 29295 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• dovecot-tab-authentication-bypass(41085) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 5257 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• 29557 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1516 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• USN-593-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-2475 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 29364 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2008:020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [Dovecot-news] 20080309 Security hole #6: Some passdbs allowed users to log in without a valid password (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [Dovecot-news] 20080309 v1.0.13 and v1.1.rc3 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 29226 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20080312 rPSA-2008-0108-1 dovecot (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 32151 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 29385 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-2464 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 28181 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 29396 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 08:17 UTC.