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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2013-12-09T11:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T17:29:42.974Z
Reserved: 2013-10-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2013-6171
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2013-12-09T16:36:47.097
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:58:46.447
Link: CVE-2013-6171
Redhat