It was found that FreeIPA 4.2.0 and later could disclose password hashes to users having the 'System: Read Stage Users' permission. A remote, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to disclose the password hashes belonging to Stage Users. This security issue does not result in disclosure of password hashes belonging to active standard users. NOTE: some developers feel that this report is a suggestion for a design change to Stage User activation, not a statement of a vulnerability.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - It was found that FreeIPA 4.2.0 and later could disclose password hashes to users having the 'System: Read     Stage Users' permission. A remote, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to disclose the     password hashes belonging to Stage Users. This security issue does not result in disclosure of password     hashes belonging to active standard users. NOTE: some developers feel that this report is a suggestion for     a design change to Stage User activation, not a statement of a vulnerability. (CVE-2017-12169)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to the version of the ipa packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - It was found that FreeIPA 4.2.0 and later could     disclose password hashes to users having the 'System:
    Read Stage Users' permission. A remote, authenticated     attacker could potentially use this flaw to disclose     the password hashes belonging to Stage Users. This     security issue does not result in disclosure of     password hashes belonging to active standard users.
    NOTE: some developers feel that this report is a     suggestion for a design change to Stage User     activation, not a statement of a     vulnerability.(CVE-2017-12169)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the ipa packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - It was found that FreeIPA 4.2.0 and later could     disclose password hashes to users having the 'System:
    Read Stage Users' permission. A remote, authenticated     attacker could potentially use this flaw to disclose     the password hashes belonging to Stage Users. This     security issue does not result in disclosure of     password hashes belonging to active standard users.
    NOTE: some developers feel that this report is a     suggestion for a design change to Stage User     activation, not a statement of a     vulnerability.(CVE-2017-12169)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
220483	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-12169	Nessus	Misc.	high
147601	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : ipa (EulerOS-SA-2021-1484)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
146193	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ipa (EulerOS-SA-2021-1196)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
145159	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ipa (EulerOS-SA-2021-1075)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high

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