CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-5002
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
The lynx gem before 1.0.0 for Ruby places the configured password on command lines, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by listing processes.
Affected configurations
• lynx project lynx (< 1.0.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/07/23 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/17/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/lynx-0.2.0.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/panthomakos/lynx/issues/3 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/07/23 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/17/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/lynx-0.2.0.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/panthomakos/lynx/issues/3 Third Party Advisory