CVE-2012-2664: Red Hat Sos

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.

Affected products

• Red Hat Sos: up to and including 2.2-18

Published 2012-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.