CVE-2012-4453

Public on 2012-10-09
Modified on 2014-09-16
Description
It was discovered that dracut created initramfs images as world readable. A local user could possibly use this flaw to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as iSCSI authentication passwords, encrypted root file system crypttab passwords, or other information.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.4
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 dracut 2013-12-11 ALAS-2013-257 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.4 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N