National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2368
Original release date:01/20/2009
Last revised:02/05/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 stores passwords in cleartext in the UserDirEnrollment log, the RA wizard installer log, and unspecified other debug log files, and uses weak permissions for these files, which allows local users to discover passwords by reading the files.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0007
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0006
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452000
External Source: XF
Name: redhat-cs-debuglog-info-disclosure(48022)
External Source: BID
Name: 33288
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0145
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021608
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33540
Type: Advisory
