CVE-2008-1218 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1218 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 368617 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:020, published Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:11:47 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:15 2025