CVE - CVE-2013-6171

CVE-ID
CVE-2013-6171	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.
References
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CONFIRM:http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security MISC:http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/ MLIST:[Dovecot-news] 20131103 v2.2.7 released URL:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-November/000264.html SECUNIA:54808 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/54808 UBUNTU:USN-3556-2 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20131018	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20131018)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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