Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-18928

critical

CVE-2019-18928

cyrus-imapd: privilege escalation in HTTP request

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Cyrus IMAP 2.5.x before 2.5.14 and 3.x before 3.0.12 allows privilege escalation because an HTTP request may be interpreted in the authentication context of an unrelated previous request that arrived over the same connection.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10cyrus-imapd3.0.8-6+deb10u3
debian 11cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 12cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 13cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 14cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 9cyrus-imapd2.5.10-3+deb9u3
echocyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
Oracle Linux 8cyrus-imapd, cyrus-imapd-utils, cyrus-imapd-vzic3.0.7-19.el8
ubuntu 18.04-ESMcyrus-imapd2.5.10-3ubuntu1.1+esm1
ubuntu 20.04cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 20.04-ESMcyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 20.10cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
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SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10cyrus-imapd3.0.8-6+deb10u3
debian 11cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 12cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 13cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 14cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
debian 9cyrus-imapd2.5.10-3+deb9u3
echocyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
Oracle Linux 8cyrus-imapd3.0.7-19.el8
Oracle Linux 8cyrus-imapd-utils3.0.7-19.el8
Oracle Linux 8cyrus-imapd-vzic3.0.7-19.el8
ubuntu 18.04-ESMcyrus-imapd2.5.10-3ubuntu1.1+esm1
ubuntu 20.04cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 20.04-ESMcyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 20.10cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 21.04cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 21.10cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 22.04cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 22.10cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 23.04cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 23.10cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 24.04cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1
ubuntu 24.10cyrus-imapd3.0.12-1

References

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