CVE-2022-29550 Information disclosure in n/a
Qualys Cloud Agent writes process environment variables, potentially including credentials, to a log file readable by root, exposing sensitive data via operational practices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-29550?
CVE-2022-29550 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Aug 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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
Weakness: CWE-532
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29550?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Qualys Cloud Agent.
How do I fix CVE-2022-29550?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-29550 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2022-29550 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29550 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9c2p-jfmw-fgw7.