CVE-2014-0189
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
virt-who uses world-readable permissions for /etc/sysconfig/virt-who, which allows local users to obtain password for hypervisors by reading the file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Red Hat Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| virt-who_project | virt-who | - | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0430.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/28/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67089
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081286
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1088732
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0430.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/28/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67089
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081286
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1088732
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.