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Dovecot passdbs Argument Injection Authentication Bypass

Article ID: 31466
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
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Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

Dovecot passdbs Argument Injection Authentication Bypass

This script is Copyright (C) 2008 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

FamilyMisc.
Plugin ID31466
Bugtraq ID28181
CVE IDCVE-2008-1218

Description:

Synopsis :

The remote mail server is affected by an authentication bypass
vulnerability.

Description :

The remote host is running Dovecot, an open-source IMAP4 / POP3 server
for Linux / Unix.

The version of Dovecot installed on the remote host uses a TAB
character as a delimiter internally but fails to escape them when they
appear in a password. Provided Dovecot is configured to use a
blocking passdb, an attacker can leverage this issue to bypass
authentication and gain access to a users mailbox.

See also :

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html

Solution :

Upgrade to Dovecot v1.0.13 / v1.1.rc3 or later.

Risk factor :

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.8
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
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