CVE-2022-29550: Qualys Cloud Agent

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It writes "ps auxwwe" output to the /var/log/qualys/qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log file. This may, for example, unexpectedly write credentials (from environment variables) to disk in cleartext. NOTE: there are no common circumstances in which qualys-cloud-agent-scan.log can be read by a user other than root; however, the file contents could be exposed through site-specific operational practices. The vendor does NOT characterize this as a vulnerability because the ps data collection is intentional, and would only capture credentials on a machine that was already affected by the CWE-214 weakness

Affected products

• Qualys Cloud Agent: version 4.8.0-49 only

Published 2022-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.