CVE		CVE-2009-3897
Status		Candidate
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.
Severity		Medium
CVSS score		4,6
CVSS vector		(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Phase		Assigned (28.01.2010)
NVD:		http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3897
References		BID : 37084
		MANDRIVA : MDVSA-2009:306
		MLIST : [dovecot-news] 20091120 v1.2.8 released
		MLIST : [oss-security] 20091120 CVE request: v1.2.8 released to fix the 0777 base_dir creation issue
		MLIST : [oss-security] 20091121 CVE Request - Dovecot - 1.2.8
		MLIST : [oss-security] 20091123 Re: CVE Request - Dovecot - 1.2.8
		MLIST : [oss-security] 20091123 Re: CVE request: v1.2.8 released to fix the 0777 base_dir creation issue
		OSVDB : 60316
		SECUNIA : 37443
		SUSE : SUSE-SR:2010:001
		VUPEN : ADV-2009-3306
		XF : dovecot-basedir-privilege-escalation(54363)
SecurityVulns:		Dovecot weak permissions