CVE-2014-4040

medium

Published 2014-06-17 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.

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.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.3.1-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.3.1-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.3.1-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.3.1-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.3.1-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
powerpc-utils_project	powerpc-utils	`1.2.20`

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.