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CVE-2008-4577

Date: October 15, 2008

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (21)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
http://secunia.com/advisories/32471
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10376
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36904
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4577
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4577
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-4577
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4577

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

Incorrect Authorization

CWE-863

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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