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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117513
Category:General
Title:Dovecot 2.3.11 - 2.3.14 Path Traversal Vulnerability
Summary:Dovecot is prone to a path traversal vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Dovecot is prone to a path traversal vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Dovecot does not correctly escape kid and azp fields in JWT
tokens. This may be used to supply attacker controlled keys to validate tokens in some
configurations. This requires attacker to be able to write files to local disk.

Vulnerability Impact:
Local attacker can login as any user and access their emails.

Affected Software/OS:
Dovecot version 2.3.11 through 2.3.14.

Solution:
Update to version 2.3.14.1 or later.

Workaround:

Disable local JWT validation in oauth2, or use a different dict driver than fs:posix.

CVSS Score:
2.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-29157
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JB2VTJ3G2ILYWH5Y2FTY2PUHT2MD6VMI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TK424DWFO2TKJYXZ2H3XL633TYJL4GQN/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-41
https://dovecot.org/security
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