{"cve":"CVE-2019-19783","nvd":{"published":"2019-12-16T14:15:12.257","modified":"2026-06-17T02:27:14.477","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"references":["https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DIV4HQ6LG5GPRO4B5Z2NHCZUPBUVVVF/","https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IGOO5UGEBBDPN7B2YXLK7I7L3Y35EBA/","https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/38","https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-23","https://usn.ubuntu.com/4566-1/"],"products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux","cyrus:imap","debian:debian_linux","fedoraproject:fedora"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:59:27.069234358+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2019-19783","score":0.01655,"percentile":0.76577,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}