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CVE-2012-2664

Published: Jun 29, 2012 | Modified: Aug 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
1.9 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2664
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/255.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sos Redhat * 2.2-18 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat sos-0:1.7-9.62.el5_9.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat sos-0:2.2-29.el6 *

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