** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It writes "ps auxwwe" output to the /var/log/qualys/qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log file. This may, for example, unexpectedly write credentials (from environment variables) to disk in cleartext. NOTE: there are no common circumstances in which qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log can be read by a user other than root; however, the file contents could be exposed through site-specific operational practices. The vendor does NOT characterize this as a vulnerability because the ps data collection is intentional, and would only capture credentials on a machine that was already affected by the CWE-214 weakness.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux | Vendor Advisory |
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research | Vendor Advisory |
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2022-08-18 06:15
Updated : 2022-09-15 09:48
NVD link : CVE-2022-29550
Mitre link : CVE-2022-29550
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-532
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Products Affected
qualys
- cloud_agent