CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5746

Published: Sep 26, 2016 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
5.1
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
1.2 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libstorage-ng Opensuse - -
Yast-storage Yast - -
Libstorage Opensuse - -
Leap Opensuse 42.1 42.1

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