CVE-2012-2664
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | sos | {"endIncluding":"2.2-18"} | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468
CWEs
CWE-255
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.