CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-25649

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory

Published: Mar 14, 2024 | Modified: Aug 27, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In Delinea PAM Secret Server 11.4, it is possible for an attacker (with Administrator access to the Secret Server machine) to read the following data from a memory dump: the decrypted master key, database credentials (when SQL Server Authentication is enabled), the encryption key of RabbitMQ queue messages, and session cookies.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory.

Extended Description

The sensitive memory might be saved to disk, stored in a core dump, or remain uncleared if the product crashes, or if the programmer does not properly clear the memory before freeing it. It could be argued that such problems are usually only exploitable by those with administrator privileges. However, swapping could cause the memory to be written to disk and leave it accessible to physical attack afterwards. Core dump files might have insecure permissions or be stored in archive files that are accessible to untrusted people. Or, uncleared sensitive memory might be inadvertently exposed to attackers due to another weakness.

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