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Red Hat: CVE-2019-19783: CVE-2019-19783 cyrus-imapd: lmtpd component created mailboxes with administrator privileges if the "fileinto" was used, bypassing ACL checks (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-19783: CVE-2019-19783 cyrus-imapd: lmtpd component created mailboxes with administrator privileges if the "fileinto" was used, bypassing ACL checks (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/16/2019
Created
11/06/2020
Added
11/05/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in Cyrus IMAP before 2.5.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.13, and 3.1.x through 3.1.8. If sieve script uploading is allowed (3.x) or certain non-default sieve options are enabled (2.x), a user with a mail account on the service can use a sieve script containing a fileinto directive to create any mailbox with administrator privileges, because of folder mishandling in autosieve_createfolder() in imap/lmtp_sieve.c.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-cyrus-imapd
  • redhat-upgrade-cyrus-imapd-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-cyrus-imapd-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-cyrus-imapd-utils
  • redhat-upgrade-cyrus-imapd-utils-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-cyrus-imapd-vzic
  • redhat-upgrade-cyrus-imapd-vzic-debuginfo

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