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CVE-2013-6171

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/9/2013

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

dovecot:dovecot

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-287

References

http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/54808(cve@mitre.org)

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-November/000264.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/(cve@mitre.org)

http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/54808(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-November/000264.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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