CVSS 3.0
5.1 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2016-5746
Medium (5.1). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file, as demonstrated by /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- opensuse:leap
- opensuse:libstorage
- opensuse:libstorage-ng
- yast:yast-storage