CVE-2012-2389

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

hostapd 0.7.3, and possibly other versions before 1.0, uses 0644 permissions for /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information such as credentials.

hostapd 0.7.3, and possibly other versions before 1.0, uses 0644 permissions for /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information such as credentials.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-21 15:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-04-19 03:21:00

Affected Software

w1.fi Hostapd 0.7.3

0.7.3

References

FEDORA-2012-8611

MDVSA-2012:168

[oss-security] 20120523 Re: CVE request(?): hostapd: improper file permissions of hostapd's config leaks credentials

[oss-security] 20120523 CVE request(?): hostapd: improper file permissions of hostapd's config leaks credentials

[oss-security] 20120523 Re: CVE request(?): hostapd: improper file permissions of hostapd's config leaks credentials

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740964

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824660

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