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.
Published: 2008-10-31
Score: 2.1 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-4849 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.
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Dovecot Dovecot
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:31:27.923Z

Reserved: 2008-10-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4870

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-11-01T00:00:01.273

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

Link: CVE-2008-4870

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-03-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-4870 - Bugzilla

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