Sos
CVE-2012-2664
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Credentials management errors
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 4.3 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, M complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.44%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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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. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-255. 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. Affected products include: Redhat Sos. Version information: before 2.2.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
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EPSS
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Directory traversal vulnerability in the JobScheduler Operations Center (JOC) in SOS JobScheduler before 1.6.4246 and 1.
sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a sy
XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in JobScheduler before 1.6.4246 and 7.x before 1.7.4241 allows remote attackers
sosreport 3.2 uses weak permissions for generated sosreport archives, which allows local users with access to /var/tmp/
It was found that the ovirt-log-collector/sosreport collects the RHV admin password unfiltered. Rated medium severity (C
sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 produces an archive with an fstab file pot
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the JobScheduler Operations Center (JOC) in SOS JobScheduler before 1.6.4246
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