CVE-2010-3779

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2010-10-06
Bugzilla:
641287: CVE-2010-3779 Dovecot: Admin permissions granted to the owner of each mailbox in a non-public namespace

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.beta2 grants the admin permission to the owner of each mailbox in a non-public namespace, which might allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by changing the ACL of a mailbox, as demonstrated by a symlinked shared mailbox.

Find out more about CVE-2010-3779 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of dovecot as
shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 or 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

Base Score 5.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
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 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 dovecot Not affected

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