CVE-2008-4870

LOW 2.1CVE-2008-4870 · Published 01/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4870 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting dovecot (dovecot).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.37%, higher than 31.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dovecot dovecot	`= 1.0.7`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

secunia.com/advisories/32164 · Broken Link
secunia.com/advisories/33149 · Broken Link
secunia.com/advisories/33624 · Broken Link
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml · Third Party Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 · Mailing List
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323 · Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776 · Tool Signature

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

dovecot

= 1.0.7

No fix yet

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