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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-15104

An access flaw was found in Heketi 5, where the heketi.json configuration file was world readable. An attacker having local access to the Heketi server could read plain-text passwords from the heketi.json file.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:50 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-15104

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Dec 2017, 19:29 UTC

An access flaw was found in Heketi 5, where the heketi.json configuration file was world readable. An attacker having local access to the Heketi server could read plain-text passwords from the heketi.json file.

osv:CVE-2017-15104
Complete source record
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    "summary": "An access flaw was found in Heketi 5, where the heketi.json configuration file was world readable. An attacker having local access to the Heketi server could read plain-text passwords from the heketi.json file.",
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