CVE-2014-3925

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 produces an archive with an fstab file potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
RedHat Sos: through 1.7

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/30/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102633
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/30/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102633

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