CVE-2010-3779

low

Published 2010-10-06 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.5

Description

Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.beta2 grants the admin permission to the owner of each mailbox in a non-public namespace, which might allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by changing the ACL of a mailbox, as demonstrated by a symlinked shared mailbox.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:1.2.15-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:1.2.15-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:1.2.15-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:1.2.15-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:1.2.15-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.0`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.1`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.2`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.3`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.4`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.5`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.6`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.7`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.8`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.9`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.10`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.11`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.12`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.13`
dovecot	dovecot	`1.2.14`
dovecot	dovecot	`2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.