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CVE-2022-29869

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Apr 28, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.3 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29869
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/532.html

cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file contains = (equal sign) characters but is not a valid credentials file.

Weakness

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cifs-utils Samba * 6.15 (excluding)
Cifs-utils Ubuntu bionic *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu focal *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu impish *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu jammy *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Cifs-utils Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References

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