National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5626
Original release date:10/23/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
make_catalog_backup in Bacula 2.2.5, and probably earlier, sends a MySQL password as a command line argument, and sometimes transmits cleartext e-mail containing this command line, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain the password by listing the process and its arguments, or by sniffing the network.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: FRSIRT
Name: ADV-2007-3572
Type: Advisory
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200807-10
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31184
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27243
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 41861
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446809
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=990
External Source: XF
Name: bacula-makecatalogbackup-info-disclosure(37336)
External Source: BID
Name: 26156