cve-2024-2905
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-25 17:44
Modified
2024-12-24 14:31
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
A security vulnerability has been discovered within rpm-ostree, pertaining to the /etc/shadow file in default builds having the world-readable bit enabled. This issue arises from the default permissions being set at a higher level than recommended, potentially exposing sensitive authentication data to unauthorized access.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3401
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3823
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2905
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271585
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/security/advisories/GHSA-2m76-cwhg-7wv6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3401
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3823
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2905
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271585
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/security/advisories/GHSA-2m76-cwhg-7wv6
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:2024.3-3.el9_4   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:2023.3-2.el9_2   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::appstream
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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