CVE-2014-3925

medium

Published 2014-06-01 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 produces an archive with an fstab file potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.

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.

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.10	Affected	—
15.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
5	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	sos	`{"endIncluding":"1.7"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.