Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800030
Category:	Privilege escalation
Title:	Dovecot ACL Plugin Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
Summary:	Dovecot ACL Plugin is prone to multiple security bypass vulnerabilities.
Description:	Summary: Dovecot ACL Plugin is prone to multiple security bypass vulnerabilities. Vulnerability 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 create parent/child/child mailboxes. Vulnerability Impact: Successful attack could allow malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or manipulate certain data. Affected Software/OS: Dovecot versions prior to 1.1.4. Solution: Upgrade to Dovecot version 1.1.4 or later. CVSS Score: 6.4 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4577 31587 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587 32164 http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 32471 http://secunia.com/advisories/32471 33149 http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 33624 http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 36904 http://secunia.com/advisories/36904 ADV-2008-2745 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745 FEDORA-2008-9202 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.html FEDORA-2008-9232 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.html GLSA-200812-16 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml MDVSA-2008:232 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232 RHSA-2009:0205 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html SUSE-SR:2009:004 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html USN-838-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1 [Dovecot-news] 20081005 v1.1.4 released http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10376 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10376 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4578 20081119 Re: [ MDVSA-2008:232 ] dovecot http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498498/100/0/threaded dovecot-acl-mailbox-security-bypass(45669) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45669
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