CVE-2016-0764

medium

Published 2017-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.2

Description

Race condition in Network Manager before 1.0.12 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 allows local users to obtain sensitive connection information by reading temporary files during ifcfg and keyfile changes.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

62%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.1.91-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.1.91-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.1.91-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.1.91-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.1.91-1`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	networkmanager	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.8"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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