CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-1772

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In Debian GNU/Linux, during the configuration of mnogosearch in the mnogosearch-common 3.2.31-1 package, debconf uses the world-readable config.dat file instead of the restricted passwords.dat file to store the cleartext database administrator password in the mnogosearch-common/database_admin_pass record, allowing local users to view the password.

Risk Assessment

A local user can read the database administrator password, potentially leading to unauthorized database access and data confidentiality loss.

Recommendation

Update the mnogosearch-common package to a version where the password is stored in the passwords.dat file with proper permissions, or manually change the permissions of the config.dat file to prevent reading by unauthorized users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

debconf in Debian GNU/Linux, when configuring mnogosearch in the mnogosearch-common 3.2.31-1 package, uses the world-readable config.dat file instead of the restricted passwords.dat for storing the cleartext database administrator password in the mnogosearch-common/database_admin_pass record, which allows local users to view the password.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS