CVE-2022-29550

MEDIUM

Qualys Cloud Agent - Log Information Exposure

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It writes "ps auxwwe" output to the /var/log/qualys/qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log file. This may, for example, unexpectedly write credentials (from environment variables) to disk in cleartext. NOTE: there are no common circumstances in which qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log can be read by a user other than root; however, the file contents could be exposed through site-specific operational practices. The vendor does NOT characterize this as a vulnerability because the ps data collection is intentional, and would only capture credentials on a machine that was already affected by the CWE-214 weakness

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 37.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-532
Status published
Products (1)
qualys/cloud_agent 4.8.0-49
Published Aug 18, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026