Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2007-6418 First vendor Publication 2007-12-17
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2008-11-15

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The libdspam7-drv-mysql cron job in Debian GNU/Linux includes the MySQL dspam database password in a command line argument, which might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6418

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18585
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18585
Title: DSA-1501-1 dspam - information disclosure
Description: Tobias Grützmacher discovered that a Debian-provided CRON script in dspam, a statistical spam filter, included a database password on the command line. This allowed a local attacker to read the contents of the dspam database, such as emails.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1501-1
CVE-2007-6418
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): dspam
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8104
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8104
Title: DSA-1501 dspam -- programming error
Description: Tobias Gruuml Tzmacher discovered that a Debian-provided CRON script in dspam, a statistical spam filter, included a database password on the command line. This allowed a local attacker to read the contents of the dspam database, such as emails. The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain the dspam package.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1501
CVE-2007-6418
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): dspam
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-02-28 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1501-1 (dspam)
File : nvt/deb_1501_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44138 Debian GNU/Linux libdspam7-drv-mysql Cron MySQL dspam Database Password Local...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-02-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1501.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27938
CONFIRM http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448519
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1501
OSVDB http://osvdb.org/44138
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/29059

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