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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-1218 EUVD-2008-1227GHSA-g2xp-pqfg-wfq9

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 attac…

Published Mar 10, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: dovecot Ecosystem: Debian

Description

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 dovecot 1:1.0.13-1 —
Debian 13 dovecot 1:1.0.13-1 —
Debian 12 dovecot 1:1.0.13-1 —
Debian 4.0 dovecot 1.0.rc15-2etch4 DSA-1516-1

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Advisories 1

References