FKIE_CVE-2008-4577
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-10-15 20:08 - Updated: 2026-04-23 00:35
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| dovecot | dovecot | * | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 8 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 9 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 10.3-11.1 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 9.04 |
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Nomenclature
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