PT-2008-5795 · Dovecot+1 · Dovecot+1

Published 2008-10-15 · Updated 2024-01-21 · CVE-2008-4577

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dovecot versions prior to 1.1.4

Description The issue allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions due to the ACL plugin treating negative access rights as if they are positive access rights.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.4, update to version 1.1.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Incorrect Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-863

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4577

RHSA-2009:0205

RHSA-2009_0205

Affected Products

Dovecot

Red Hat

References · 25

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4577 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4577 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4577 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32471 · Note