CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2008-4870

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.

2.1 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 Broken Link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 Broken Link
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
Configurations

Configuration 1
Information

Published : 2008-11-01 12:00

Updated : 2022-02-03 07:58

NVD link : CVE-2008-4870

Mitre link : CVE-2008-4870

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-732