CVE-2021-29157

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows ../ Path Traversal. An attacker with access to the local filesystem can trick OAuth2 authentication into using an HS256 validation key from an attacker-controlled location. This occurs during use of local JWT validation with the posix fs driver.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29157.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-29157

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202106-56

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.3.15-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2
debian debiansidfixed1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.