cve-2008-4577
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-10-15 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:24
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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