What is CVE-2017-2665?

CVE-2017-2665 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mongodb, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-07-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-2665?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Mongodb

CVE-2017-2665

The skyring-setup command creates random password for mongodb skyring database but it writes password in plain text to /etc/skyring/skyring.conf file which is owned by root but read by local user. Any local user who has access to system ru…

EPSS: 0.003 (24.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Mongodb
[Unknown] Rhscon-core — versions n/a
Redhat Storage_console — versions 2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-2665?: CVE-2017-2665 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mongodb, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-07-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-2665?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.