CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-4318

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-03-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Dovecot 2.0.x before 2.0.16, when ssl or starttls is enabled and hostname is used to define the proxy destination, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a valid certificate for a different hostname.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot 2.0.0 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.1 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.2 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.3 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.4 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.5 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.6 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.7 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.8 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.9 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.10 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.11 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.12 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.13 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.14 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.15

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References