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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2007-2231 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attack…

published 2007-04-25 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-2226

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • dovecot Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.rc29-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2231

  • dovecot RHEL 5 1.0.7-2.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0297

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-2231 updated

Directory traversal in dovecot with zlib plugin

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) dovecot 1.0.7-2.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) dovecot 1.0.7-2.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0297

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

References

Sources

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