Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libguestfs/libguestfs package, versions [,1.20.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBGUESTFSLIBGUESTFS-2364698
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jun 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-2690  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libguestfs/libguestfs to version 1.20.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials virt-edit in libguestfs before 1.18.0 does not preserve the permissions from the original file and saves the new file with world-readable permissions when editing, which might allow local guest users to obtain sensitive information.

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