High severity · published Oct 15, 2008
CVE-2008-4577
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
7.5
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 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 interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DO
Dovecot · Dovecot
before 1.1.4 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
8; 9 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
10.3-11.1 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
8.04; 8.10; 9.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4577
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4577
Issue Tracking
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/32471
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
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