Red Hat livecd-tools before 13.4.4, 17.x before 17.17, 18.x before 18.16, and 19.x before 19.3, when a rootpw directive is not set in a Kickstart file, sets the root user password to empty, which allows local users to gain privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2013-05-29T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:27:39.171Z

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-2069

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2013-05-29T00:55:01.133

Modified: 2018-12-06T21:01:14.503

Link: CVE-2013-2069

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2013-05-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-2069 - Bugzilla