Vulnerability in Powerpc-Utils Project

CVE-2014-4040

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.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

EPSS: 0.018 (76.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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