Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2007-2231 First vendor Publication 2007-04-25
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2018-10-16

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2231

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10995
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10995
Title: 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.
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-2231
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20207
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20207
Title: DSA-1359-1 dovecot - directory traversal
Description: It was discovered that dovecot, a secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes, when configured to use non-system-user spools and compressed folders, may allow directory traversal in mailbox names.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1359-1
CVE-2007-2231
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): dovecot
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 37

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for dovecot vulnerability USN-487-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_487_1.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for dovecot RHSA-2008:0297-02
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0297-02_dovecot.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for dovecot FEDORA-2007-493
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_493_dovecot_fc5.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1359-1 (dovecot)
File : nvt/deb_1359_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
35489 Dovecot index/mbox/mbox-storage.c Traversal Arbitrary Gzip File Access

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20080521_dovecot_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0297.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-487-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-09-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1359.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-05-10 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-493.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23552
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466168/100/0/threaded
CONFIRM http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1359
MLIST http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008488.html
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-March/000038.html
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/25072
http://secunia.com/advisories/30342
SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_8_sr.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-487-1
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1452
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34082

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