Local Plaintext Credential Disclosure Affecting point-cli package, versions >= 0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-POINTCLI-20167
  • published29 Jun 2014
  • disclosed29 Jun 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-4997  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

point-cli is a CLI client for the PointHQ DNS Hosting System. Affected versions of this gem exposes credential information in plaintext in the process table due to a flaw in /lib/commands/setup.rb. This may allow a local attacker to gain access to credential information.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1