{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "low"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:11",
        "name": "dovecot"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2.2.9-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "low"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:12",
        "name": "dovecot"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2.2.9-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "low"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:13",
        "name": "dovecot"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2.2.9-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "low"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "dovecot"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2.2.9-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6171",
  "modified": "2026-04-28T19:53:28.715213315Z",
  "published": "2013-12-09T16:36:47.097Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6171"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2013-6171"
  ]
}