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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42008

Forwarding information received from a host listed as a trusted proxy is not kept separate from Dovecot's own authentication fields, so a value sent b...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Forwarding information received from a host listed as a trusted proxy is not kept separate from Dovecot's own authentication fields, so a value sent by that host can be injected as an internal authentication field. Any host permitted to act as a trusted proxy can authenticate as any user without knowing that user's password. This affects deployments whose password database honours a field that permits authentication without a password. Deployments that do not configure trusted proxies are not affected. Restrict the list of trusted proxy networks to hosts that are fully under your control. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 dovecot
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13 dovecot
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7"}]}]
Debian:14 dovecot
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1"}]}]

References

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