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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1218 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/12/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of Dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29226 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29295 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29364 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29385 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29396 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29557 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32151 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml CVE, MITRE
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516 CVE, MITRE
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28181 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41085 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341 CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/ CVE, MITRE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5257 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-1218
NVD Published Date:
03/10/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE