CVE-2008-4577
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.32% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-10-15 20:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-10-15
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863Incorrect AuthorizationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1185d42a61fc5af31be59dc1806b0fbf6ef6ee0a87b66dde53fd7efa8ae10955
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com32164http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
- secunia.com32471http://secunia.com/advisories/32471
- secunia.com33149http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2745http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-9202https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10376https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10376
- www.securityfocus.com31587http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-9232https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.html
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:232http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-838-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2009:004http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200812-16http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2009:0205http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html
- secunia.com33624http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
- www.dovecot.org[Dovecot-news] 20081005 v1.1.4 releasedhttp://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html
- secunia.com36904http://secunia.com/advisories/36904
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- dovecot Fixed in 1:1.0.15-2.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- dovecot Fixed in 1:1.0.15-2.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- dovecot Fixed in 1:1.0.15-2.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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