CVE-2009-1296: Ubuntu 73-Oubuntu

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The eCryptfs support utilities (ecryptfs-utils) 73-0ubuntu6.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 stores the mount passphrase in installation logs, which might allow local users to obtain access to the filesystem by reading the log files from disk. NOTE: the log files are only readable by root.

Affected products

  • Ubuntu 73-Oubuntu: version 6.1 only
  • Ubuntu Ubuntu: version 9.0.4 only

Published 2009-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.