CVE-2008-1218 (GCVE-0-2008-1218)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-10 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
21 references
Date Public
2008-03-09 00:00
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