Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting ecryptfs package, versions [,105)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.18% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ECRYPTFS-2374436
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Mar 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Mar 2015

CVE-2014-9687  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ecryptfs to version 105 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials eCryptfs 104 and earlier uses a default salt to encrypt the mount passphrase, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain user passwords via a brute force attack.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1