CVE-2008-1218: Dovecot

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dovecot Dovecot: up to and including 1.0.12; up to and including 1.1

Published 2008-03-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.