CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2231

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-04-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-04-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta1 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta2 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta3 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta4 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta5 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta6 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta7 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta8 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta9 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc1 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc2 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc3 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc4 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc5 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc6 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc7 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc8 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc9 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc10 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc11 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc12 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc13 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc14 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc15 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc16 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc17 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc18 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc19 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc20 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc21 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc22 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc23 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc24 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc25 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc26 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc27 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc28

References