Vulnerability Details : CVE-2008-1218
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-1218
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days: 6.77%
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less: ~ 93 % EPSS Score History EPSS FAQ
CVSS scores for CVE-2008-1218
| Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Source |
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6.8
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MEDIUM | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
8.6
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6.4
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[email protected] |
CWE ids for CVE-2008-1218
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Assigned by: [email protected] (Primary)
Vendor statements for CVE-2008-1218
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Red Hat 2008-03-12Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of Dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5.
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41085
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded
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http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html
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https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28181
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https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5257
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http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html
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http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
- cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*