IBM SONAS Administrator password can be read by the root user from the shell command hist

Systems Affected

Threat Level

Overview

A fix is available for IBM SONAS, for the security issue that after changing password of administrative user, the password can be read by the root user from the shell command history.

Description

One of the purposes of chuser command is to modify the password of an administrative user account in IBM SONAS. When used with the -p argument, the chuser command records the administrator password in the shell command history. The shell command history can subsequently be read by the root user. CVE-2014-3045 CVSS Base Score: 2.1

Impact

Solution/ Workarounds

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References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1004815

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