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dovecot — security advisory
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.
- Products
- dovecot
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:1.2.8-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-3897
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3897
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1:1.2.8-1
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1:1.2.8-1
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1:1.2.8-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T18:02:38.946814832Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 419611,
"published_at": "2009-11-24T17:30:00.407+00:00"
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