VulnerabilityModified
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.
LOW 2.1EPSS 0.37%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.37% probability · 31th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-732
- Affected
- dovecot/dovecot
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33624Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776Tool Signature
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33624Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776Tool Signature
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.