Description
The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.
Published: 2012-06-29
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-2647 The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.
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Redhat Enterprise Linux Sos
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:42:32.152Z

Reserved: 2012-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-2664

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-06-29T19:55:03.797

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-2664

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-2664 - Bugzilla

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