DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4870

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4870

    Published: 1 Nov 2008Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2008-4870

    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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4870

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dovecot

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/dovecot?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1
    1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u1
    1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u2
    1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u3
    1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u4
    1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u5
    1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u6
    1:2.3.20+dfsg1-1
    1:2.3.21+dfsg1-1
    1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2
    1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3
    1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3~bpo12+1
    1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1
    1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1~bpo12+1

    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