CVE-2021-29157

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-29157
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-28 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
DescriptionDovecot before 2.3.15 allows ../ Path Traversal. An attacker with access to the local filesystem can trick OAuth2 authentication into using an HS256 validation key from an attacker-controlled location. This occurs during use of local JWT validation with the posix fs driver.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE-2021-29157: Dovecot oauth2 JWT local validation path traversal CONFIRM www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: dovecot-2.3.15-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: dovecot-2.3.15-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: dovecot-2.3.15-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-41) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: dovecot-2.3.15-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Dovecot | Security MISC dovecot.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179995 Debian Security Update for dovecot (CVE-2021-29157)
  • 198412 Ubuntu Security Notification for Dovecot vulnerabilities (USN-4993-1)
  • 281677 Fedora Security Update for dovecot (FEDORA-2021-208340a217)
  • 281678 Fedora Security Update for dovecot (FEDORA-2021-891c1ab1ac)
  • 500156 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 503806 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 690103 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for dovecot (d18f431d-d360-11eb-a32c-00a0989e4ec1)
  • 710028 Gentoo Linux Dovecot Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-41)
  • 750695 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:2122-1)
  • 750697 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:2124-1)
  • 750729 OpenSUSE Security Update for dovecot23 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0920-1)
  • 750800 OpenSUSE Security Update for dovecot23 (openSUSE-SU-2021:2123-1)
  • 751070 OpenSUSE Security Update for dovecot23 (openSUSE-SU-2021:2892-1)
  • 751078 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:2890-1)
  • 751080 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:2891-1)
  • 751091 OpenSUSE Security Update for dovecot23 (openSUSE-SU-2021:1225-1)
  • 900900 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for dovecot (7195)
  • 907339 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for dovecot (7195-1)
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