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CVE-2014-3925 (GCVE-0-2014-3925)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-06-01 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:57
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102633 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/30/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2014-05-29 00:00
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