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CVE-2008-4870

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-01

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0004