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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- DOVECOT
- Published
- 11/1/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
dovecot : dovecot
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