# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9c2p-jfmw-fgw7

## 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 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29550?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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

- [CVE-2023-28140](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28140/): Executable Hijacking (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2023-28141](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28141/): NTFS Junction (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2023-28142](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28142/): Race Condition (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2023-28143](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28143/): Local Privilege Escalation (medium 6.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-29550 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29550 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29550/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29550/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29550
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29550
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-29550

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29550/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.