National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1218
Original release date:03/10/2008
Last revised:10/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters, which are treated as argument delimiters that enable the skip_password_check field to be specified.
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:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/12/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of Dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5.
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [Dovecot-news] 20080309 v1.0.13 and v1.1.rc3 released
External Source: MLIST
Name: [Dovecot-news] 20080309 Security hole #6: Some passdbs allowed users to log in without a valid password
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32151
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:020
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-2475
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-2464
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341
External Source: XF
Name: dovecot-tab-authentication-bypass(41085)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-593-1
External Source: BID
Name: 28181
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080312 rPSA-2008-0108-1 dovecot
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 5257
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1516
External Source: MISC
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200803-25
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29557
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29396
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29385
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29364
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29295
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29226