Description
The Gentoo Nullmailer package before 1.11-r2 uses world-readable permissions for /etc/nullmailer/remotes, which allows local users to obtain SMTP authentication credentials by reading the file.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- GENTOO
- Published
- 5/23/2014
- Last Modified
- 4/12/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
gentoo : nullmailer
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