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CVE-2013-6171

Published: Dec 9, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/

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http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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[Dovecot-news] 20131103 v2.2.7 released

mailing-list

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