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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.con

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.

LOW · CVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.0004
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-732Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
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Affected Products & Versions

1
dovecotall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

2.1
LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Published to NVD01 Nov 2008 · 12:00 AM
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Vendor Advisories

1
rhsaRHSA-2009:0205Low
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References & Sources

9
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://secunia.com/advisories/32164Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624Broken Link
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.htmlThird Party Advisory
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