National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3707
Original release date:10/06/2010
Last revised:08/27/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
plugins/acl/acl-backend-vfile.c in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.5 interprets an ACL entry as a directive to add to the permissions granted by another ACL entry, instead of a directive to replace the permissions granted by another ACL entry, in certain circumstances involving more specific entries that occur after less specific entries, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via a request to read or modify a mailbox.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0301
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-2840
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-2572
Type: Advisory
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1059-1
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:0600
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:217
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dovecot] 20101002 ACL handling bugs in v1.2.8+ and v2.0
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dovecot] 20101002 v2.0.5 released
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dovecot] 20101002 v1.2.15 released
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43220
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20101004 Re: CVE Request: more dovecot ACL issues
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20101004 CVE Request: more dovecot ACL issues
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:020
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)