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.
CVE-2013-6171 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 1 product from dovecot organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2013, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2013-12-09T16:36:47.097
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 5.8 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
8.6
4.9
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | ≤ 2.2.6 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.4 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.5 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.6 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.7 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.8 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.9 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.10 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.11 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.12 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.13 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.14 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.0.15 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.0 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.3 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.4 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.5 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.6 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.7 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.10 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.11 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.12 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.13 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.14 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.1.15 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2.0 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2.1 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2.2 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2.3 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2.4 | Yes |
| Application | dovecot | dovecot | 2.2.5 | Yes |
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