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CVE-2009-2977

Status: ModifiedLow (3.3)—

The Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) 6.0.4 and earlier stores cleartext passwords in log/sysbacktrace.## files within error-logs.tar.gz archives, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Cisco — Cs-mars

CWEs

References

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