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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- DOVECOT
- Published
- 3/10/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
dovecot : dovecotdovecot : dovecot
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