CVE-2008-4577
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Incorrect authorization
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32164Advisory
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32471
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36904
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlAdvisory