CVE-2011-2916

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

qtnx 0.9 stores non-custom SSH keys in a world-readable configuration file. If a user has a world-readable or world-executable home directory, another local system user could obtain the private key used to connect to remote NX sessions.

Affected products

qtnx: 0.9

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2916
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2916
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2916
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2916
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2916
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2916

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