CVE-2021-28374: Debian Courier-Authlib

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Debian courier-authlib package before 0.71.1-2 for Courier Authentication Library creates a /run/courier/authdaemon directory with weak permissions, allowing an attacker to read user information. This may include a cleartext password in some configurations. In general, it includes the user's existence, uid and gids, home and/or Maildir directory, quota, and some type of password information (such as a hash).

Affected products

  • Debian Courier-Authlib: before 0.71.1-2 (fixed in 0.71.1-2)
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only

Published 2021-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.