Information disclosure in yast-rmt - CVE-2018-17957

 

Information disclosure in yast-rmt - CVE-2018-17957

Published: December 23, 2018 / Updated: December 24, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16669
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17957
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to exposure of secure MySQL credentials on the command line. A remote attacker can gain access to potentially sensitive information.


Affected software

yast-rmt
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-17957

Update to version 1.1.12.

yast-rmt - update to 1.1.12

External References

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