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CVE-2012-2664

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from t

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.00438
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redhat sos<= 2.2-18

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4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Published to NVD29 Jun 2012 · 07:55 PM

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