CVE-2008-4870 in dovecot

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 10/31/2008
• Disclosure: 10/31/2008
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-44801
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.0
• EPSS: 0.00040
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4870
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4870
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-4870/