CVE-2013-6171

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2013-11-03
Bugzilla:
1028589: CVE-2013-6171 dovecot: passdb checkpassword authentication local bypass

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2013-6171 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dovecot Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dovecot Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dovecot Not affected

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