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CVE-2007-6598

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-01-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Dovecot before 1.0.10, with certain configuration options including use of %variables, does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache, which might allow remote authenticated users to login as a different user who has the same password.

Affected products

• dovecot: through 1.0.9

References

• http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-December/000057.html
• http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-December/000058.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
• http://osvdb.org/39876
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28227
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28271
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28404
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28434
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30342
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32151
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1457
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html

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