CVE-2021-29157

medium

Description

Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows ../ Path Traversal. An attacker with access to the local filesystem can trick OAuth2 authentication into using an HS256 validation key from an attacker-controlled location. This occurs during use of local JWT validation with the posix fs driver.

References

Advisories
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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/28/1

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-41

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TK424DWFO2TKJYXZ2H3XL633TYJL4GQN/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JB2VTJ3G2ILYWH5Y2FTY2PUHT2MD6VMI/

https://dovecot.org/security

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-06-28

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00231