CVE-2008-4870

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-732

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.

Affected products

dovecot: 1.0.7

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
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776
http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624

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