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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2013-0347

High
7.2/10

Summary

The Gentoo init script for webfs uses world-readable permissions for /var/log/webfsd.log, which allows local users to have unspecified impact by reading the file.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published