Vulnerability · Published Aug 18, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-29550

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research x_refsource_MISC
https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux x_refsource_MISC
20220912 Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC