Vulnerability in Dovecot
CVE-2007-6598
Dovecot before 1.0.10, with certain configuration options including use of %variables, does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache, which might allow remote authenticated users to login as a different user who has the same password.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (79.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/28434 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30342 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10458 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485787/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-567-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27093 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0017 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/39876 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)