CVE-2008-2368 (GCVE-0-2008-2368)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-20 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:58
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/33540 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0145 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33288 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021608 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0006.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452000 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0007.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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