CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1218
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
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.
Affected configurations
• dovecot dovecot (<= 1.0.12)
• dovecot dovecot (<= 1.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29226 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29295 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29364 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29385 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29396 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29557 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32151 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516 www.debian.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html www.dovecot.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html www.dovecot.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28181 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41085 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341 issues.rpath.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5257 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html www.redhat.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29226 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29295 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29364 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29385 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29396 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29557 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32151 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516 www.debian.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html www.dovecot.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html www.dovecot.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28181 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41085 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341 issues.rpath.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5257 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html www.redhat.com