{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-1218 exists.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2008-1218 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Dovecot Dovecot, published on 10 Mar 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-1218 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-1218 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Dovecot Dovecot, published on 10 Mar 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-1218 exists.\n\nAffected product: Dovecot Dovecot. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1218/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1218/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-1218","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1218/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-1218","record":{"aliases":["CVE-2008-1271","DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1218","GHSA-g2xp-pqfg-wfq9"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["security_bypass","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can bypass password checks in Dovecot by injecting TAB characters into passwords when blocking passdbs are used, leading to unauthorized access.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"dovecot","vendor":"dovecot"}],"cvss":{"score":6.8,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-255","name":null}],"description":"Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters, which are treated as argument delimiters that enable the skip_password_check field to be specified.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2008-03-14","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2008-03-14","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"5257","stars":null,"title":"Dovecot IMAP 1.0.10 \u003c 1.1rc2 - Remote Email Disclosure"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-1218","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"dovecot:dovecot","products":["dovecot:dovecot"],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":21,"next":{"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-1219"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-1217"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-03-10","related":[{"cvss_score":7.7,"headline":"Auth bypass in OX Dovecot Pro","id":"CVE-2026-24031","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-27"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in OX Dovecot Pro","id":"CVE-2025-59032","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-27"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in OX Dovecot Pro","id":"CVE-2026-27858","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-27"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-29157","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-06-28"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-10957","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-05-18"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-7046","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-02-12"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-11494","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-05-08"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can bypass password checks in Dovecot by injecting TAB characters into passwords when blocking passdbs are used, leading to unauthorized access.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1218/"}