National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2414
Original release date:05/16/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0 beta and 1.0 allows remote attackers to list files and directories under the mbox parent directory and obtain mailbox names via ".." sequences in the (1) LIST or (2) DELETE IMAP command.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of Dovecot distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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External Source: BID
Name: 17961
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060512 Dovecot IMAP: Mailbox names list disclosure with mboxes
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-May/000006.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: dovecot-imap-list-information-disclosure(26536)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2013
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1080
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20315
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20308
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-May/005563.html
External Source: SREASON
Name: 913