CVE-2007-6598

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-6598
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-01-04 02:46:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionDovecot before 1.0.10, with certain configuration options including use of %variables, does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache, which might allow remote authenticated users to login as a different user who has the same password.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian update for dovecot - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1457-1 dovecot af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Red Hat update for dovecot - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
osvdb.org/39876 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2076 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
[Dovecot-news] v1.0.10 released af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 dovecot.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2008:020 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[Dovecot-news] Security hole #4: Specific LDAP + auth cache configuration may mix up user logins af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 dovecot.org
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Dovecot Authentication Cache Security Bypass Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
rPath update for dovecot - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE update for dovecot and graphicsmagic - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for dovecot - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Dovecot LDAP Auth Cache Security Bypass - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-567-1: Dovecot vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-05-21Joshua BressersThis issue did not affect versions of Dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux before version 5. An update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released to correct this issue: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html

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