Vulnerability in Dovecot
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (28.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 29th percentile — 28.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Dovecot — versions 1.0.7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/32164 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33149 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33624 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10776 (Tool Signature, signature, vdb-entry)