CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2664
4.3 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.
Affected configurations
• redhat sos (<= 2.2-18)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com