virt-who cryptographic issue

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in virt-who. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cryptographic issue. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-0189. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in virt-who (version now known). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-310. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

virt-who uses world-readable permissions for /etc/sysconfig/virt-who, which allows local users to obtain password for hypervisors by reading the file.

The weakness was disclosed 05/02/2014 by lion as Bug 1088732 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-0189 since 12/03/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 81352 (Fedora 21 : virt-who-0.8-11.fc21 (2015-1632)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 123378 (Red Hat Update for virt-who (RHSA-2015:0430)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (92908), Tenable (81352), SecurityFocus (BID 67089†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-48734†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cryptographic issue
CWE: CWE-310
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 81352
Nessus Name: Fedora 21 : virt-who-0.8-11.fc21 (2015-1632)
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OpenVAS ID: 867773
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for virt-who FEDORA-2015-1632
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12/03/2013 🔍
04/27/2014 +145 days 🔍
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05/02/2014 +4 days 🔍
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02/16/2015 +290 days 🔍
02/24/2015 +8 days 🔍
03/25/2015 +29 days 🔍
05/12/2026 +4066 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 1088732
Researcher: lion
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-0189 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-0189
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-69572
X-Force: 92908
SecurityFocus: 67089 - virt-who CVE-2014-0189 Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 48734 - virt-who Local Information Disclosure due to virt-who Configuration File Installed with World-Readable Permissions, Low

Entryinfo

Created: 03/25/2015 16:45
Updated: 05/12/2026 16:31
Changes: 03/25/2015 16:45 (58), 06/20/2017 08:53 (10), 03/21/2022 07:40 (3), 12/22/2024 06:47 (16), 05/12/2026 16:31 (1)
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