CVE-2009-3897

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2009-11-20
CWE:
CWE-732
Bugzilla:
746266: CVE-2009-3897 dovecot: Insecure permissions set for certain directories at installation time

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.8 sets 0777 permissions during creation of certain directories at installation time, which allows local users to access arbitrary user accounts by replacing the auth socket, related to the parent directories of the base_dir directory, and possibly the base_dir directory itself.

Find out more about CVE-2009-3897 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the version of dovecot shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 1.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dovecot Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dovecot Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 dovecot Not affected

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