CVE-2009-1296
Published Jun 9, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The eCryptfs support utilities (ecryptfs-utils) 73-0ubuntu6.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 stores the mount passphrase in installation logs, which might allow local users to obtain access to the filesystem by reading the log files from disk. NOTE: the log files are only readable by root.
- Source
- security@ubuntu.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 1.9
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-200
Vendor comments
- Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of ecryptfs-utils as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. eCryptfs encrypted home directories are not set up during the system installation, so theres no possibility for leaking encryption passwords to the installation log file.
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