CVE-2007-2231

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.

Affected products

dovecot: 1.0.beta1, 1.0.beta2, 1.0.beta3, 1.0.beta4, 1.0.beta5, 1.0.beta6 (+31)

References

http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008488.html
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-March/000038.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25072
http://secunia.com/advisories/30342
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1359
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_8_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466168/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23552
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-487-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1452

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