CVE-2016-5746

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file, as demonstrated by /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.

Affected products

openSUSE Leap: 42.1
openSUSE Libstorage: all versions
openSUSE Libstorage-Ng: all versions
Yast-Storage: all versions

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00032.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93169
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986971
https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage-ng/pull/123
https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage/pull/162
https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage/pull/163
https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/223
https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/224
https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/226
https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/227
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00032.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93169

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