CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-6171
5.8 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/ cpanel.net
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54808 Vendor Advisory
- http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security wiki2.dovecot.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-November/000264.html Patch
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/ cpanel.net
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54808 Vendor Advisory
- http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security wiki2.dovecot.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-November/000264.html Patch
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/ usn.ubuntu.com