Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

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
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.4
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 dracut 2013-12-11 20:33 ALAS-2013-257

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