Description
The save_log_local function in Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) 2.10.1, and possibly 3.1.2, when verbose mode is enabled, stores the root password hash in /var/log/fai/current/fai.log, whose file permissions allow it to be copied to other hosts when fai-savelog is called and allows attackers to obtain the hash.
Published: 2006-12-18
Score: 1.9 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-6597 The save_log_local function in Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) 2.10.1, and possibly 3.1.2, when verbose mode is enabled, stores the root password hash in /var/log/fai/current/fai.log, whose file permissions allow it to be copied to other hosts when fai-savelog is called and allows attackers to obtain the hash.
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Debian Debian Linux
Thomas Lange Fully Automated Installation
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:33:59.717Z

Reserved: 2006-12-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6614

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-18T02:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-6614

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