Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting virt-who package, versions <0:0.11-5.el7


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-RHEL7-VIRTWHO-4519106
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • 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:7 virt-who to version 0:0.11-5.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:0430.

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:7 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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