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CVE-2012-2664

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.

Affected products

• RedHat Sos: through 2.2-18

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468

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