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CVE-2008-4870

Date: October 31, 2008

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4870
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4870
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4870

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CWE-732

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE
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