National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6598
Original release date:01/04/2008
Last revised:04/08/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Dovecot before 1.0.10, with certain configuration options including use of %variables, does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache, which might allow remote authenticated users to login as a different user who has the same password.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (05/21/2008)
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This issue did not affect versions of Dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux before version 5. An update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released to correct this issue:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html
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External Source: BID
Name: 27093
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080103 Re: rPSA-2008-0001-1 dovecot
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080103 rPSA-2008-0001-1 dovecot
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0297
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0017
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32151
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30342
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 39876
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:020
External Source: MLIST
Name: [Dovecot-news] 20071229 v1.0.10 released
External Source: MLIST
Name: [Dovecot-news] 20071221 Security hole #4: Specific LDAP + auth cache configuration may mix up user logins
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2076
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-567-1
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1457
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28434
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28404
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28271
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28227