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CVE-2008-4870

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4870 describes a vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.7, specifically within Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and potentially Fedora, where the dovecot.conf file is world-readable. This misconfiguration allows local users to access the ssl_key_password parameter. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-0:1.0.7-7.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4870Low

dovecot: ssl_key_password disclosure due to an insecure dovecot.conf permissions

Mar 6, 2008

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32164
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/33149
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/33624
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml
Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46323
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776
Tool Signature
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html
Third Party Advisory