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CVE-2008-4577

The ACL plugin in Dovecot before 1.1.4 treats negative access rights as if they are positive access rights, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Published

2008-10-15T20:08:02.670

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: NONE
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-863
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application dovecot dovecot < 1.1.4 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora 8 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora 9 Yes
Operating System opensuse opensuse 10.3-11.1 Yes
Operating System canonical ubuntu_linux 8.04 Yes
Operating System canonical ubuntu_linux 8.10 Yes
Operating System canonical ubuntu_linux 9.04 Yes
References