Cleartext Password Exposure in PowerPC-Utils Archive

CVE-2014-4040 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files 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.

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