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CVE-2007-4211

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-4211 describes a vulnerability in the ACL plugin of Dovecot versions prior to 1.0.3, allowing authenticated users with specific permissions to manipulate flags via COPY or APPEND commands. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.0, indicating a medium severity risk with potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, requiring authenticated access and medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries, and it has garnered no significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 1,428 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: dovecot-0:1.0.7-2.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-4211Low

Dovecot possible privilege ascalation in ACL plugin

Aug 1, 2007

References

secunia.com / advisories/26320
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26475
secunia.com / advisories/30342
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/35767
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1621
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11558
dovecot.org / list/dovecot-news/2007-August/000048.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html
securityfocus.com / bid/25182
Patch