Published: 09/06/2009 Updated: 17/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 169

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The eCryptfs support utilities (ecryptfs-utils) 73-0ubuntu6.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 stores the mount passphrase in installation logs, which might allow local users to obtain access to the filesystem by reading the log files from disk. NOTE: the log files are only readable by root.

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Debian Bug report logs - #532372 ecryptfs-utils: CVE-2009-1296 unencrypted passphrase on disk Package: ecryptfs-utils; Maintainer for ecryptfs-utils is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Source for ecryptfs-utils is src:ecryptfs-utils (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: "Michael S Gilbert" <michaelsgilbert@gmail ...

Chris Jones discovered that the eCryptfs support utilities would report the mount passphrase into installation logs when an eCryptfs home directory was selected during Ubuntu installation The logs are only readable by the root user, but this still left the mount passphrase unencrypted on disk, potentially leading to a loss of privacy ...

CWE-200 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-783-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/35383 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022347 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51191 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532372 https://usn.ubuntu.com/783-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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