Description
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.
Published: 2008-10-15
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-838-1 Dovecot vulnerabilities
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Dovecot Dovecot
Fedoraproject Fedora
Opensuse Opensuse
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:24:20.877Z

Reserved: 2008-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4577

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-10-15T20:08:02.670

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-4577

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-10-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-4577 - Bugzilla

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