{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2012-09-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "dracut: Creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions (information disclosure)",
    "id" : "859448",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859448"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.4",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.", "It was discovered that dracut created initramfs images as world readable. A local user could possibly use this flaw to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as iSCSI authentication passwords, encrypted root file system crypttab passwords, or other information." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "This issue was discovered by Peter Jones (Red Hat Installer Team).",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2013-11-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:1674",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "dracut-0:004-336.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4453\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4453" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-4453",
  "csaw" : false
}