CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6340

Published: Sep 22, 2016 | Modified: Sep 22, 2016

CVSS 3.x

8.4

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

1.2 LOW

RedHat/V3

1.9 LOW

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6340
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/254.html

The kickstart file in Red Hat QuickStart Cloud Installer (QCI) forces use of MD5 passwords on deployed systems, which makes it easier for attackers to determine cleartext passwords via a brute-force attack.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Quickstart_cloud_installer	Redhat	- (including)	- (including)

References

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