CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4870
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• dovecot dovecot 1.0.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776 Tool Signature
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776 Tool Signature