CVE-2016-5746

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-313: Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

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.

CWE-313: Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-09-26 15:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:2264

Third Party Advisory

93169

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986971

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage/pull/162

Patch

https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage/pull/163

Patch

https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage-ng/pull/123

Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/223

Patch

https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/224

Patch

https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/226

Patch

https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/227

Patch

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