PT-2016-6827 · Red Hat · Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer

Thom Carlin · Published 2016-09-22 · Updated 2016-09-22 · CVE-2016-6322

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Red Hat QuickStart Cloud Installer (QCI) (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the Red Hat QuickStart Cloud Installer (QCI) using world-readable permissions for the /etc/qci/answers file. This allows local users to obtain the root password for the deployed system by reading the file.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6322

Affected Products

Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6322 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92668 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1366413 · Note