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medium 4.3

CVE-2012-2664 json

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart config…

published 2012-06-29 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-2647

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.

Patch / fix

  • sos RHEL 5 1.7-9.62.el5_9.1
  • sos RHEL 6 2.2-29.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1121RHSA-2012:0958

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-2664 updated cvss 1.9

sosreport does not blank root password in anaconda plugin

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) sos 1.7-9.62.el5_9.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1121
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) sos 2.2-29.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) sos 2.2-29.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) sos 2.2-29.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) sos 2.2-29.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:0958

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

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