Detections
Analytics
CVE-2012-2664
high
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html