{"id":"CVE-2010-3779","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2010-3779","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:51:58.384Z","title":"Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.beta2 grants the admin permission to the owner of each mailbox in a non-public namespace, which might allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by changing the ACL of a…","description":"Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.beta2 grants the admin permission to the owner of each mailbox in a non-public namespace, which might allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by changing the ACL of a mailbox, as demonstrated by a symlinked shared mailbox.","published":"2010-10-06T21:00:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:23:31.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.5,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["dovecot/dovecot"],"epss":{"score":0.01096,"percentile":0.65342,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/43220","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-October/053450.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-October/053452.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:217","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1059-1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2840","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0301","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/43220","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-October/053450.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-October/053452.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:217","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1059-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2840","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0301","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3779","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}