CVE-2022-29550 Information

Description

DISPUTED 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.

Reference

https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research