Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting virt-who package, versions <0:0.9-6.el5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-VIRTWHO-9839853
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed26 Mar 2014

Introduced: 26 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 virt-who to version 0:0.9-6.el5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHBA-2014:1206.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream virt-who package and not the virt-who package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

virt-who uses world-readable permissions for /etc/sysconfig/virt-who, which allows local users to obtain password for hypervisors by reading the file.

CVSS Base Scores

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