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CVE-2022-29550 Details

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

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

see all 8 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-532	Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
qualys cloud agent	4.8.0-49
CPE cpe:2.3:a:qualys:cloud_agent:4.8.0-49:::::linux:: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

12 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
Aug 3, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 17, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 11, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Mar 21, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 15, 2022	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Sep 13, 2022	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 12, 2022	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 23, 2022	Initial Analysis	[email protected]