CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4578
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The ACL plugin in Dovecot before 1.1.4 allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by using the "k" right to create unauthorized "parent/child/child" mailboxes.
Affected configurations
• dovecot dovecot (<= 1.1.3)
• dovecot dovecot 0.99.13
• dovecot dovecot 0.99.14
• dovecot dovecot 1.0
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.2
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.3
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.4
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.5
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.6
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.7
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.8
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.9
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.10
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.12
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta1
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta2
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta3
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta4
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta5
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta6
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta7
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta8
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.beta9
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc1
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc2
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc3
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc4
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc5
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc6
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc7
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc8
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc9
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc10
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc11
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc12
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc13
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc14
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc15
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc16
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc17
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc18
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc19
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc20
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc21
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc22
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc23
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc24
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc25
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc26
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc27
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.rc28
• dovecot dovecot 1.0 rc29
• dovecot dovecot 1.1
• dovecot dovecot 1.1.0
• dovecot dovecot 1.1.1
• dovecot dovecot 1.1.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498498/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45669 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498498/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45669 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com