CVE-2007-2231

EPSS 1.5%

dovecot - directory traversal

Published: 4/25/2007Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2231

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.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/dovecotfrom 0, < 1.0.rc29-1
Debian/dovecotfrom 0, < 1.0.rc15-2etch1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2231