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CVE-2015-6941 (GCVE-0-2015-6941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-09 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:36
VLAI
Summary
win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-09-11 00:00
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