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redis -- sensitive information leak through command history file

Affected packages
redis < 3.2.3
redis-devel < 3.2.3

Details

VuXML ID fa175f30-8c75-11e6-924a-60a44ce6887b
Discovery 2013-11-30
Entry 2016-10-11

Redis team reports:

The redis-cli history file (in linenoise) is created with the default OS umask value which makes it world readable in most systems and could potentially expose authentication credentials to other users.

References

CVE Name CVE-2013-7458
URL https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3284
URL https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/1418