Vulnerability CVE-2012-2664
Published: 2012-06-29   Modified: 2012-07-04

Description:
The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Redhat -> SOS 

 References:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/76468
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