CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
36.7%
The fetchmail team reports:
The fetchmailconf program before and excluding version
1.49 opened the run control file, wrote the configuration
to it, and only then changed the mode to 0600 (rw-------).
Writing the file, which usually contains passwords, before
making it unreadable to other users, can expose sensitive
password information.