Upstream information

CVE-2013-2069 at MITRE

Description

Red Hat livecd-tools before 13.4.4, 17.x before 17.17, 18.x before 18.16, and 19.x before 19.3, when a rootpw directive is not set in a Kickstart file, sets the root user password to empty, which allows local users to gain privileges.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
  • openstack-heat-templates >= 0.0.0+git.1452795102.e53f5d3-1.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 GA openstack-heat-templates-0.0.0+git.1451027929.810f40b-1.1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:30:48 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:19:00 2025