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Dovecot ACL Plugin Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Privilege escalation
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.4
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host has Dovecot ACL Plugin installed and is prone to multiple security bypass vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
The flaws are due to, - the ACL plugin interprets negative access rights as positive access rights, potentially giving an unprivileged user access to restricted resources. - an error in the ACL plugin when imposing mailbox creation restrictions to to create parent/child/child mailboxes.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Dovecot versions prior to 1.1.4 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Dovecot version 1.1.4.