CVE-2008-4870

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    CVE-2008-4870

    Published: 1 Nov 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://secunia.com/advisories/32164, http://secunia.com/advisories/33149, http://secunia.com/advisories/33624, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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