CVE-2008-4870
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-732
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (31th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4849)
- Published
- November 1, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4849 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- dovecot / dovecot
- redhat / enterprise linux
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33624(Broken Link)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776(Tool Signature)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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