CVE-2008-4870

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.

• CWE-732

• http://secunia.com/advisories/32164Broken Link
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33149Broken Link
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33624Broken Link
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776Tool Signature
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32164Broken Link
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33149Broken Link
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33624Broken Link
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776Tool Signature

Published

Nov 1, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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