CVE-2008-4870

CVSS V2 Low 2.1 CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-4870

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2008-11-01T00:00:01

Last Modified Date
2022-02-03T19:58:59

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-732	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/732.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
		AND
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.7:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:::::::*	0	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
2.1

Severity
LOW

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
2.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149	Broken Link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32164	Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624	Broken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776	Tool Signature

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4870
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4870

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 06:34:20				Added to TrackCVE