CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5746

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2016-09-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-09-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.2 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file, as demonstrated by /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.

Affected configurations

• opensuse libstorage • opensuse libstorage-ng • yast yast-storage • opensuse leap 42.1

References