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CVE-2009-3897

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2009-11-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.8 sets 0777 permissions during creation of certain directories at installation time, which allows local users to access arbitrary user accounts by replacing the auth socket, related to the parent directories of the base_dir directory, and possibly the base_dir directory itself.

Affected Platforms

Dovecot Dovecot

Weakness Type

CWE-732

References