A security issue was discovered in dovecot version 2.2.26 up to 2.3.11.3. When imap hibernation is active, an attacker can cause dovecot to discover the file system directory structure and access other users' emails using a specially crafted command. The attacker must have valid credentials to access the mail server. The issue is fixed in dovecot version 2.3.13.
A security issue was discovered in dovecot version 2.2.26 up to 2.3.11.3. When imap hibernation is active, an attacker can cause dovecot to discover the file system directory structure and access other users' emails using a specially crafted command. The attacker must have valid credentials to access the mail server. The issue is fixed in dovecot version 2.3.13.
https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-January/000450.html https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/00df2308b0733e810824545183d73276c416cdd3 https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/b4a9872b833b7985c7d0e7615f1b7fc812dd4c55
Workaround ========== Operators can choose to disable IMAP hibernation. IMAP hibernation is not on by default. To ensure imap hibernation is disabled, make sure imap_hibernate_timeout is set to 0 or unset.
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