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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2007-6598 json

Dovecot before 1.0.10, with certain configuration options including use of %variables, does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache, whic…

published 2008-01-04 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-6564

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Dovecot before 1.0.10, with certain configuration options including use of %variables, does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache, which might allow remote authenticated users to login as a different user who has the same password.

Patch / fix

  • dovecot Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.0.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6598

  • 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-2007-6598 updated

dovecot LDAP+auth cache user login mixup

  • 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

1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.