CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-6171

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-12-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
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-287

Description

checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot (<= 2.2.6) • dovecot dovecot 2.0 • 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 • dovecot dovecot 2.1 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.0 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.1 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.2 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.3 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.4 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.5 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.6 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.7 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.10 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.11 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.12 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.13 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.14 • dovecot dovecot 2.1.15 • dovecot dovecot 2.2 • dovecot dovecot 2.2.0 • dovecot dovecot 2.2.1 • dovecot dovecot 2.2.2 • dovecot dovecot 2.2.3 • dovecot dovecot 2.2.4 • dovecot dovecot 2.2.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References