CVE-2012-6117

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2012-11-01
Bugzilla:
906201: CVE-2012-6117 Aeolus Configserver: Passwords from application blueprint stored plaintext in configserver.log

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Aeolus Configuration Server, as used in Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine before 1.1.2, uses world-readable permissions for /var/log/aeolus-configserver/configserver.log, which allows local users to read plaintext passwords by reading the log file.

Find out more about CVE-2012-6117 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine 1 (aeolus-configserver) RHSA-2013:0545 2013-02-21

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat CloudForms System Engine 1 aeolus-configserver Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by James Laska of Red Hat.

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