CVE-2010-3779: Dovecot

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dovecot Dovecot: version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; version 1.2.5 only; …

Published 2010-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.