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
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html
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