CVE-2008-1218

Dovecot IMAP 1.0.10 < 1.1rc2 - Remote Email Disclosure

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Vulnerabilidad de inyección de argumentos en Dovecot 1.0.x anterior a 1.0.13, y 1.1.x anterior a 1.1.rc3, cuando se utiliza passdbs con bloqueo, permite a atacantes remotos evitar la comprobación de contraseña a través de una contraseña que contenga caracteres TAB, los cuales son tratados como delimitadores de los argumentos que permiten que el fichero skip_password_check sea especificado.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2008-03-09 CVE Reserved
2008-03-10 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2024-08-07 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-255: Credentials Management Errors

CAPEC

References (21)

URL	Tag	Source
http://secunia.com/advisories/29226	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29295	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29364	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29385	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29396	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29557	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32151	Third Party Advisory
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108	X_refsource_misc
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html	Mailing List
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28181	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41085	Vdb Entry
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5257	2024-08-07

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html	2018-10-11
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml	2018-10-11
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516	2018-10-11
https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1	2018-10-11
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html	2018-10-11
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html	2018-10-11

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Dovecot Search vendor "Dovecot"		Dovecot Search vendor "Dovecot" for product "Dovecot"				<= 1.0.12 Search vendor "Dovecot" for product "Dovecot" and version " <= 1.0.12"		-		Affected
Dovecot Search vendor "Dovecot"		Dovecot Search vendor "Dovecot" for product "Dovecot"				<= 1.1 Search vendor "Dovecot" for product "Dovecot" and version " <= 1.1"		rc2		Affected