Vulnerability in Red Hat Livecd-Tools

CVE-2013-2069

Red Hat livecd-tools before 13.4.4, 17.x before 17.17, 18.x before 18.16, and 19.x before 19.3, when a rootpw directive is not set in a Kickstart file, sets the root user password to empty, which allows local users to gain privileges.

EPSS: 0.003 (27.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Livecd-tools
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)