CVE-2006-6614

Severity

19%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

48%

The save_log_local function in Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) 2.10.1, and possibly 3.1.2, when verbose mode is enabled, stores the root password hash in /var/log/fai/current/fai.log, whose file permissions allow it to be copied to other hosts when fai-savelog is called and allows attackers to obtain the hash.

The save_log_local function in Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) 2.10.1, and possibly 3.1.2, when verbose mode is enabled, stores the root password hash in /var/log/fai/current/fai.log, whose file permissions allow it to be copied to other hosts when fai-savelog is called and allows attackers to obtain the hash.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-12-18 02:28:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

Debian Debian Linux 3.1

3.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402644

Exploit

23330

Vendor Advisory

21579

ADV-2006-4995

fai-log-file-info-disclosure(30892)

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