NVD
- Id
- 41301
- Name
- CVE-2013-6171
- Description
- 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.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 5.8
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 5.8
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 4.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-18
- Published
- 2013-12-09
- Modified Date
- 2013-12-11
- Seq
- 2013-6171