CVE-2008-1218

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    CVE-2008-1218

    Published: 10 Mar 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High