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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2016-5746 json

libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which m…

published 2016-09-26 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6681

cvss
5.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file, as demonstrated by /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.

Patch / fix

  • yast2-storage SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.17.161-5.1
  • libstorage SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 +1 more 2.25.35.1-3.1
  • libstorage SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12-LTSS 2.25.16.1-3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2355-1SUSE-SU-2016:2353-1SUSE-SU-2016:2189-1

Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 1.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.