CVE-2008-1199

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

Dovecot before 1.0.11, when configured to use mail_extra_groups to allow Dovecot to create dotlocks in /var/mail, might allow local users to read sensitive mail files for other users, or modify files or directories that are writable by group, via a symlink attack.

Affected products

dovecot: 0.99.13, 0.99.14, 1.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+26)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29226
http://secunia.com/advisories/29385
http://secunia.com/advisories/29396
http://secunia.com/advisories/29557
http://secunia.com/advisories/30342
http://secunia.com/advisories/32151
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000061.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489133/100/0/threaded

Get alerted when CVE-2008-1199 or the next vulnerability affects your stack