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CVE-2014-4040

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files 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

• Powerpc-Utils Project Powerpc-Utils: 1.2.20

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0384.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0384.html

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