CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2022-29550

** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It writes "ps auxwwe" output to the /var/log/qualys/qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log file. This may, for example, unexpectedly write credentials (from environment variables) to disk in cleartext. NOTE: there are no common circumstances in which qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log can be read by a user other than root; however, the file contents could be exposed through site-specific operational practices. The vendor does NOT characterize this as a vulnerability because the ps data collection is intentional, and would only capture credentials on a machine that was already affected by the CWE-214 weakness.

5.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux Vendor Advisory
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:qualys:cloud_agent:4.8.0-49:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
Information

Published : 2022-08-18 01:15

Updated : 2022-09-15 04:48

NVD link : CVE-2022-29550

Mitre link : CVE-2022-29550

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-532

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File