dovecot 1.0.7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, and possibly Fedora, uses world-readable permissions for dovecot.conf, which allows…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-732 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-732 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 32164 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20081029 CVE Request (dovecot) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 33149 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• dovecot-dovecot-information-disclosure(46323) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-200812-16 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:0205 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 33624 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10776 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:31 UTC.