CVE-2013-6171
EPSS 0.24%Published: 12/9/2013Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6171
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/dovecotfrom 0, < 1:2.2.9-1