Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-4577 First vendor Publication 2008-10-15
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-01-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact None
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4577

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
CAPEC-17 Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files
CAPEC-39 Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
CAPEC-59 Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
CAPEC-76 Manipulating Input to File System Calls
CAPEC-77 Manipulating User-Controlled Variables
CAPEC-87 Forceful Browsing
CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10376
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10376
Title: 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.
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-4577
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 60
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-06 Name : Ubuntu USN-838-1 (dovecot)
File : nvt/ubuntu_838_1.nasl
2009-06-05 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-1 (nagios)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_1.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for dovecot MDVSA-2008:232 (dovecot)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_232.nasl
2009-02-18 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:004
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_004.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for dovecot FEDORA-2008-9202
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9202_dovecot_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for dovecot FEDORA-2008-9232
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9232_dovecot_fc8.nasl
2009-01-26 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0205
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0205.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-697-1 (imlib2)
File : nvt/ubuntu_697_1.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-2 (nagios3)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_2.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-699-1 (blender)
File : nvt/ubuntu_699_1.nasl
2008-12-23 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-16 (dovecot)
File : nvt/glsa_200812_16.nasl
2008-11-24 Name : FreeBSD Ports: dovecot
File : nvt/freebsd_dovecot1.nasl
2008-10-17 Name : Dovecot ACL Plugin Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
File : nvt/gb_dovecot_mult_sec_bypass_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49098 Dovecot ACL Plugin Negative Access Rights Bypass

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20090120_dovecot_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-29 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-838-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_dovecot-090205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-232.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_dovecot-5986.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-21 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200812-16.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-21 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_75c24c1db68811dd88fd001c2514716c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-31 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9202.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-31 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9232.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587
CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844...
GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232
MLIST http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
http://secunia.com/advisories/32471
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
http://secunia.com/advisories/36904
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745

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