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CVE-2022-29550

MEDIUM

5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It writes "ps auxwwe" output to the /var/log/qualys/qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log file. This may, for example, unexpectedly write credentials (from environment variables) to disk in cleartext. NOTE: there are no common circumstances in which qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log can be read by a user other than root; however, the file contents could be exposed through site-specific operational practices. The vendor does NOT characterize this as a vulnerability because the ps data collection is intentional, and would only capture credentials on a machine that was already affected by the CWE-214 weakness

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published8/18/2022

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

qualys:cloud_agent

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-532

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10(cve@mitre.org)

https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux(cve@mitre.org)

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research(cve@mitre.org)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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