Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-3814  

A vulnerability has been found in Dovecot versions prior to 2.3.4.1, allowing a remote client in possession of a trusted SSL certificate to log in as any user, in some configurations. This affects only installations using auth_ssl_require_client_cert = yes and auth_ssl_username_from_cert = yes, and the the attacker might have access to a trusted certificate without the ssl_cert_username_field (default to commonName) set in it.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Authentication bypass

Description

A vulnerability has been found in Dovecot versions prior to 2.3.4.1, allowing a remote client in possession of a trusted SSL certificate to log in as any user, in some configurations.
This affects only installations using auth_ssl_require_client_cert = yes and auth_ssl_username_from_cert = yes, and the the attacker might have access to a trusted certificate without the ssl_cert_username_field (default to commonName) set in it.

AVG-872 dovecot 2.3.4-3 2.3.4.1-1 High Fixed

06 Feb 2019 ASA-201902-1 AVG-872 dovecot High authentication bypass

https://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-February/114575.html
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/61471a5c42528090cffcca9bceded316746637b7

Needs better description