Description
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.
Published: 2008-03-10
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 18.7% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1516-1 New dovecot packages fix privilege escalation
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-593-1 Dovecot vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:17:34.499Z

Reserved: 2008-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-1218

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-03-10T23:44:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-1218

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2008-03-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-1218 - Bugzilla

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