CVE-2007-5626

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-319

Description

make_catalog_backup in Bacula 2.2.5, and probably earlier, sends a MySQL password as a command line argument, and sometimes transmits cleartext e-mail containing this command line, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain the password by listing the process and its arguments, or by sniffing the network.

Affected products

Bacula: through 2.2.5

References

http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=990
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446809
http://osvdb.org/41861
http://secunia.com/advisories/27243
http://secunia.com/advisories/31184
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-10.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26156
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3572
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37336
http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=990
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446809
http://osvdb.org/41861

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