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Insufficiently Protected Credentials

CVE-2018-11752

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

Previous releases of the Puppet cisco_ios module output SSH session debug information including login credentials to a world readable file on every run. These issues have been resolved in the 0.4.0 release.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published