CVE-2012-2664

Published Jun 29, 2012

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-255

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:sos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "145DE1D0-7982-4A90-8183-0D7F4670A614",
            "versionEndIncluding": "2.2-18"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References