Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-9687 - Credentials Management vulnerability in Ecryptfs Ecryptfs-Utils 86/99
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
eCryptfs 104 and earlier uses a default salt to encrypt the mount passphrase, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain user passwords via a brute force attack.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-119.NASL description This update for ecryptfs-utils fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-1572: A local user could have escalated privileges by mounting over special filesystems (bsc#962052) - CVE-2014-9687: A default salt value reduced complexity of offline precomputation attacks (bsc#920160) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-02-03 plugin id 88544 published 2016-02-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88544 title openSUSE Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (openSUSE-2016-119) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-0290-1.NASL description This update for ecryptfs-utils fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-1572: A local user could have escalated privileges by mounting over special filesystems (bsc#962052) - CVE-2014-9687: A default salt value reduced complexity of offline precomputation attacks (bsc#920160) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88508 published 2016-02-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88508 title SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (SUSE-SU-2016:0290-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-0241-1.NASL description This update for ecryptfs-utils fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-1572: A local user could have escalated privileges by mounting over special filesystems (bsc#962052) - CVE-2014-9687: A default salt value reduced complexity of offline precomputation attacks (bsc#920160) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88408 published 2016-01-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88408 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (SUSE-SU-2016:0241-1) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2524-1.NASL description Sylvain Pelissier discovered that eCryptfs did not generate a random salt when encrypting the mount passphrase with the login password. An attacker could use this issue to discover the login password used to protect the mount passphrase and gain unintended access to the encrypted files. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 81756 published 2015-03-11 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/81756 title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 14.10 : ecryptfs-utils vulnerability (USN-2524-1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00118.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/10/16
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/17/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/28/3
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2524-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/906550