CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5103
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
The (1) python-vm-builder and (2) ubuntu-vm-builder implementations in VMBuilder 0.9 in Ubuntu 8.10 omit the -e option when invoking chpasswd with a root:! argument, which configures the root account with a cleartext password of ! (exclamation point) and allows attackers to bypass intended login restrictions.
Affected configurations
• dcgrendel vmbuilder 0.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19619929/vm-builder_0.9-0ubuntu3.1.debdiff Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/49996 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32697 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32292 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-670-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vm-builder/+bug/296841 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46603 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19619929/vm-builder_0.9-0ubuntu3.1.debdiff Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/49996 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32697 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32292 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-670-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vm-builder/+bug/296841 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46603 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com