An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It...

Vulnerability Description

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

References

• https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research
• https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html