Local Plaintext Password Disclosure Affecting brbackup package, versions >= 0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-BRBACKUP-20186
  • published8 Jul 2014
  • disclosed8 Jul 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-5004  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

brbackup Gem exposes password information in plaintext in the process list. This may allow a local attacker to gain access to password information.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1