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CVE-2016-4983

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• 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: yes
• Published: 2019-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

A postinstall script in the dovecot rpm allows local users to read the contents of newly created SSL/TLS key files.

Affected products

• dovecot: all versions
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1, 42.2
• Opensuse: 13.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-11/msg00096.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346055
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984639
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-11/msg00096.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346055
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984639

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