Description
An issue was discovered in Cyrus IMAP before 2.5.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.13, and 3.1.x through 3.1.8. If sieve script uploading is allowed (3.x) or certain non-default sieve options are enabled (2.x), a user with a mail account on the service can use a sieve script containing a fileinto directive to create any mailbox with administrator privileges, because of folder mishandling in autosieve_createfolder() in imap/lmtp_sieve.c.
Published: 2019-12-16
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4590-1 cyrus-imapd security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-9382 An issue was discovered in Cyrus IMAP before 2.5.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.13, and 3.1.x through 3.1.8. If sieve script uploading is allowed (3.x) or certain non-default sieve options are enabled (2.x), a user with a mail account on the service can use a sieve script containing a fileinto directive to create any mailbox with administrator privileges, because of folder mishandling in autosieve_createfolder() in imap/lmtp_sieve.c.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4566-1 Cyrus IMAP Server vulnerabilities
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00705}

epss

{'score': 0.01032}


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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Cyrus Imap
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:25:12.659Z

Reserved: 2019-12-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-19783

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-16T14:15:12.257

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:35:22.613

Link: CVE-2019-19783

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-12-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-19783 - Bugzilla

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