CVE-2009-2977 (GCVE-0-2009-2977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-27 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:07
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Summary
The Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) 6.0.4 and earlier stores cleartext passwords in log/sysbacktrace.## files within error-logs.tar.gz archives, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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Date Public
2009-08-21 00:00
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