CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-29550
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-532
Description
An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It writes "ps auxwwe" output to the /var/log/qualys/qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log file. This may, for example, unexpectedly write credentials (from environment variables) to disk in cleartext. NOTE: there are no common circumstances in which qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log can be read by a user other than root; however, the file contents could be exposed through site-specific operational practices. The vendor does NOT characterize this as a vulnerability because the ps data collection is intentional, and would only capture credentials on a machine that was already affected by the CWE-214 weakness
Affected configurations
• qualys cloud agent 4.8.0-49
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research Vendor Advisory