Vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
CVE-2014-3925
sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 produces an archive with an fstab file 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.
EPSS: 0.022 (80.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 5
- Redhat Sos
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)