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CVE-2008-4870

dovecot 1.0.7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, and possibly Fedora, uses world-readable permissions for dovecot.conf, which allows local users to obtain the ssl_key_password parameter value.

Published

2008-11-01T00:00:01.273

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 2.1 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-732

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	dovecot	dovecot	1.0.7	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux	5.0	No

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776 Tool Signature ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776 Tool Signature (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)