CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4577

7.5 HIGH Published 2008-10-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-10-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-863

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot (< 1.1.4) • fedoraproject fedora 8 • fedoraproject fedora 9 • opensuse opensuse 10.3-11.1 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness
  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References