CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5301

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2008-12-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the ManageSieve implementation in Dovecot 1.0.15, 1.1, and 1.2 allows remote attackers to read and modify arbitrary .sieve files via a ".." (dot dot) in a script name.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot 0.99.13 • dovecot dovecot 0.99.14 • dovecot dovecot 1.0 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.2 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.3 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.4 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.5 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.6 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.7 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.8 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.9 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.10 • dovecot dovecot 1.0.12 • dovecot dovecot 1.1 • dovecot dovecot 1.1.0 • dovecot dovecot 1.1.1 • dovecot dovecot 1.1.2 • dovecot dovecot 1.1.3 • dovecot dovecot 1.1.4 • dovecot dovecot 1.1.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References