Upstream information

CVE-2011-4318 at MITRE

Description

Dovecot 2.0.x before 2.0.16, when ssl or starttls is enabled and hostname is used to define the proxy destination, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a valid certificate for a different hostname.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 732050 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2012:0219-1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 08:20:51 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:05:17 2023