CVE-2014-4040: Powerpc-Utils Project Powerpc-Utils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.

Affected products

Published 2014-06-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.