CVE-2013-6171
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6171
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2013-6171.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2013-6171
- Downstream
- Published
- 2013-12-09T16:36:47Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T03:43:05.360210Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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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