stalwartlabs mail-server up to 0.7.x Web Interface privilege dropping

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in stalwartlabs mail-server up to 0.7.x. Affected is an unknown function of the component Web Interface. Performing a manipulation results in privilege dropping. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-35179. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in stalwartlabs mail-server up to 0.7.x. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege dropping vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-271. The product does not drop privileges before passing control of a resource to an actor that does not have those privileges. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Stalwart Mail Server is an open-source mail server. Prior to version 0.8.0, when using `RUN_AS_USER`, the specified user (and therefore, web interface admins) can read arbitrary files as root. This issue affects admins who have set up to run stalwart with `RUN_AS_USER` who handed out admin credentials to the mail server but expect these to only grant access according to the `RUN_AS_USER` and are attacked where the attackers managed to achieve Arbitrary Code Execution using another vulnerability. Version 0.8.0 contains a patch for the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-35179 since 05/10/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.8.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• stalwartlabs

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• mail-server

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7

Website

• Product: https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server/

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