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redis: world-readable ~/.rediscli_history

Published Aug 10, 2016

Description

linenoise, as used in Redis before 3.2.3, uses world-readable permissions for .rediscli_history, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

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Red Hat statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low. Further, home directories are not world readable on RHEL distributions (by default). This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner debian
Published Aug 10, 2016
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jul 28, 2016
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Jul 28, 2016