Critical severity · published Nov 15, 2019
CVE-2019-18928
Cyrus IMAP 2.5.x before 2.5.14 and 3.x before 3.0.12 allows privilege escalation because an HTTP request may be interpreted in the authentication context of an unrelated previous…
9.8
CVSS
2.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cyrus IMAP 2.5.x before 2.5.14 and 3.x before 3.0.12 allows privilege escalation because an HTTP request may be interpreted in the authentication context of an unrelated previous request that arrived over the same connection.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.4% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31 · source: NVD
IM
Imap · Cyrus
2.5.0 before 2.5.14; 3.0.0 before 3.0.12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18928
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18928
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00013.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LAGKPZDXQ6KRUGQVRAO6N4PCINP6KS5F/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PHV3TUU53WCKJ3BBRK2EHAF44MSZEFK6/
Patch
https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/release-notes/2.5/x/2.5.14.html
Patch
https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/release-notes/3.0/x/3.0.12.html
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