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CVE-2008-1218

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2008-03-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters, which are treated as argument delimiters that enable the skip_password_check field to be specified.

Affected Platforms

Dovecot Dovecot

Weakness Type

CWE-255

References