Information Exposure Affecting keepalived package, versions [0,2.0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KEEPALIVED-2370619
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19046  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade keepalived to version 2.0.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for existing plain files when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. If a local attacker had previously created a file with the expected name (e.g., /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats), with read access for the attacker and write access for the keepalived process, then this potentially leaked sensitive information.

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