CVE-2017-8001

high

Published 2017-11-28 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.4

Description

An issue was discovered in EMC ScaleIO 2.0.1.x. In a Linux environment, one of the support scripts saves the credentials of the ScaleIO MDM user who executed the script in clear text in temporary log files. The temporary files may potentially be read by an unprivileged user with access to the server where the script was executed to recover exposed credentials.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

80%

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.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
linux-kernel	-	not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
dell	emc_scaleio	`2.0.1.0`
dell	emc_scaleio	`2.0.1.1`
dell	emc_scaleio	`2.0.1.2`
dell	emc_scaleio	`2.0.1.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-532

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

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