CVE-2016-5746: Opensuse Leap

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file, as demonstrated by /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Libstorage: affected versions not specified
• Opensuse Libstorage-NG: affected versions not specified
• Yast Yast-Storage: affected versions not specified

Published 2016-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.