checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2013-12-09T11:00:00
Updated: 2018-03-15T09:57:02
Reserved: 2013-10-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2013-6171
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2013-12-09T16:36:47.097
Modified: 2018-03-16T01:29:00.343
Link: CVE-2013-6171
JSON object: View
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