Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Dovecot - CVE-2022-30550

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Dovecot - CVE-2022-30550

Published: July 11, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU65119
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-30550
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly handle multiple passdb
configuration entries. A remote attacker can potentially escalate privileges on the system.


Affected software

Dovecot
Gentoo Linux
Oracle Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Storage
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
dovecot (Red Hat package)
dovecot22-devel
dovecot22
dovecot22-backend-mysql
dovecot22-backend-mysql-debuginfo
dovecot22-backend-pgsql
dovecot22-backend-pgsql-debuginfo
dovecot22-backend-sqlite
dovecot22-backend-sqlite-debuginfo
dovecot22-debuginfo
dovecot22-debugsource
dovecot-core (Ubuntu package)
dovecot
dovecot-debuginfo
dovecot-help
dovecot-debugsource
dovecot-devel
dovecot23-fts-solr-debuginfo
dovecot23-fts-squat-debuginfo
dovecot23-debugsource
dovecot23
dovecot23-backend-mysql
dovecot23-backend-mysql-debuginfo
dovecot23-backend-pgsql
dovecot23-backend-pgsql-debuginfo
dovecot23-backend-sqlite
dovecot23-backend-sqlite-debuginfo
dovecot23-debuginfo
dovecot23-devel
dovecot23-fts
dovecot23-fts-debuginfo
dovecot23-fts-lucene
dovecot23-fts-lucene-debuginfo
dovecot23-fts-solr
dovecot23-fts-squat
net-mail/dovecot

How to mitigate CVE-2022-30550

Install updates from vendor's website.

dovecot (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.3.16-3.el8, 2.3.16-7.el9
dovecot22-devel - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22 - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-backend-mysql - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-backend-mysql-debuginfo - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-backend-pgsql - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-backend-pgsql-debuginfo - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-backend-sqlite - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-backend-sqlite-debuginfo - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-debuginfo - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot22-debugsource - update to 2.2.31-19.29.1
dovecot-core (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu4.8, 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.6, 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1, 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.1
dovecot - update to 2.3.15-3
dovecot-debuginfo - update to 2.3.15-3
dovecot-help - update to 2.3.15-3
dovecot-debugsource - update to 2.3.15-3
dovecot-devel - update to 2.3.15-3
dovecot23-fts-solr-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-fts-squat-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-debugsource - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23 - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-backend-mysql - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-backend-mysql-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-backend-pgsql - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-backend-pgsql-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-backend-sqlite - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-backend-sqlite-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-devel - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-fts - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-fts-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-fts-lucene - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-fts-lucene-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-fts-solr - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
dovecot23-fts-squat - addressed in versions 2.3.15-150000.4.42.1, 2.3.15-150100.31.1, 2.3.15-150200.62.1
net-mail/dovecot - update to 2.3.19.1-r1
dovecot - addressed in versions 2.3.19.1-3.fc35, 2.3.19.1-3.fc36

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