CVE-2019-19783

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19783
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-19783.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-19783
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-12-16T14:15:12.257Z
Modified
2026-03-13T14:37:44.307839Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 autosievecreatefolder() in imap/lmtpsieve.c.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd
Events
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.5.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.5.15"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.0.13"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.1.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.1.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

cyrus-imapd-2.*
cyrus-imapd-2.5.0
cyrus-imapd-2.5.1
cyrus-imapd-2.5.10
cyrus-imapd-2.5.11
cyrus-imapd-2.5.12
cyrus-imapd-2.5.13
cyrus-imapd-2.5.14
cyrus-imapd-2.5.2
cyrus-imapd-2.5.3
cyrus-imapd-2.5.4
cyrus-imapd-2.5.5
cyrus-imapd-2.5.6
cyrus-imapd-2.5.7
cyrus-imapd-2.5.8
cyrus-imapd-2.5.9
cyrus-imapd-3.*
cyrus-imapd-3.0.0
cyrus-imapd-3.0.1
cyrus-imapd-3.0.10
cyrus-imapd-3.0.11
cyrus-imapd-3.0.12
cyrus-imapd-3.0.2
cyrus-imapd-3.0.3
cyrus-imapd-3.0.4
cyrus-imapd-3.0.5
cyrus-imapd-3.0.6
cyrus-imapd-3.0.7
cyrus-imapd-3.0.8
cyrus-imapd-3.0.9
cyrus-imapd-3.1.0-dev
cyrus-imapd-3.1.1
cyrus-imapd-3.1.2
cyrus-imapd-3.1.3
cyrus-imapd-3.1.4
cyrus-imapd-3.1.5
cyrus-imapd-3.1.6
cyrus-imapd-3.1.7

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "30"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "31"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-19783.json"