CVE-2008-1199: Dovecot

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dovecot before 1.0.11, when configured to use mail_extra_groups to allow Dovecot to create dotlocks in /var/mail, might allow local users to read sensitive mail files for other users, or modify files or directories that are writable by group, via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Dovecot Dovecot: version 0.99.13 only; version 0.99.14 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …

Published 2008-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.