PT-2014-1855 · Red Hat+1 · Virt-Who+2

Published 2014-05-02 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2014-0189

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions virt-who versions 0.10

Description The issue allows local users to obtain the password for hypervisors by reading the /etc/sysconfig/virt-who file due to world-readable permissions. This can lead to a breach of confidentiality of protected information. The exploitation of this issue can be carried out locally.

Recommendations For virt-who version 0.10, consider changing the permissions of the /etc/sysconfig/virt-who file to prevent world-readable access, restricting it to only those who need to read the file.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-06693

CESA-2015_0430

CVE-2014-0189

RHSA-2015:0430

RHSA-2015_0430

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Virt-Who

References · 16

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0189 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0430.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0189 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06693 · Security Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-March/014724.html · Note
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0430.html · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081286 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1088732 · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-March/028104.html · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/28/2 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0189 · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-March/008034.html · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0430 · Note
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1513.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/67089 · Note