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CVE-2010-3779

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
06/10/2010
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.beta2 grants the admin permission to the owner of each mailbox in a non-public namespace, which might allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by changing the ACL of a mailbox, as demonstrated by a symlinked shared mailbox.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
3.50
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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