CVE-2008-4577

moderate-risk
Published 2008-10-15

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.

Do I need to act?

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1.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (7)

Affected Vendors

Canonical Fedoraproject Opensuse Dovecot

References (34)

Issue Tracking http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/32471
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/36904
Third Party Advisory http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml
Mailing List http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html
Broken Link http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232
Broken Link http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1
Permissions Required http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745
Broken Link https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3...
Mailing List https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.ht...
Mailing List https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.ht...
Issue Tracking http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
and 14 more references
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate