Information Exposure Affecting backup-agoddard package, versions >= 0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-BACKUPAGODDARD-20165
  • published29 Jun 2014
  • disclosed29 Jun 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-4993  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

backup-agoddard allows to easily perform backup operations on both your remote and local environments. Affected versions of this Gem are vulnerable to Process Table Local Plaintext Password Disclosure Attacks.

Details

backup-agoddard Gem for Ruby contains a flaw in /lib/backup/cli/utility.rb that is due to the application exposing password information in plaintext in the process table. This may allow a local attacker to gain access to password information.

CVSS Scores

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