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CVE-2012-2664

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2664 describes a vulnerability in the Red Hat sos package, specifically the sosreport utility, where it fails to remove root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when generating debugging archives. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially allowing an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive password data. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.2-18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:sos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0143 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: sos-0:1.7-9.62.el5_9.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sos-0:2.2-29.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2664Low

sosreport does not blank root password in anaconda plugin

Feb 14, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/76468
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
securityfocus.com / bid/54116