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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-7947

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP before 8.3.2P11, 9.0 before P4, and 9.1 before P5 allow attackers to obtain sensitive password information by leveraging logging of passwords entered non-interactively on the command line.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

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