Access Restriction Bypass Affecting dovecot package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-DOVECOT-1544578
  • published1 Nov 2008
  • disclosed1 Nov 2008

Introduced: 1 Nov 2008

CVE-2008-4870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:12 dovecot.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dovecot package and not the dovecot package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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