Description
The ACL plugin in Dovecot before 1.1.4 treats negative access rights as if they are positive access rights, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- DOVECOT
- Published
- 10/15/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
dovecot : dovecotfedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedoraopensuse : opensusecanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linux
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