Security Advisory

CVE-2009-3897

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-11-24 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 06:45:50
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.