VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2008-1218
CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability7.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-03-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.