CVE-2009-3897 (GCVE-0-2009-3897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-24 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:45
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/37443 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/60316 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125881481222441&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2009-Nov… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3306 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125900267208712&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125871729029145&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37084 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125900271508796&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2009-11-20 00:00
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