motionEye: World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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GHSA-rhgp-6wq6-9j67 | motionEye's World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
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This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: 1.7% (1.677% probability within 30 days)
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Motioneye Project
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| Description | motionEye (mEye) is an online interface for motion software, a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 create the configuration file /etc/motioneye/motion.conf with 644 permissions (-rw-r--r--), making it readable by any local user on the system. This file contains sensitive data including the admin password hash, which can be leveraged by other vulnerabilities to escalate privileges. Additionally, per-camera configuration files (camera-*.conf) are also created with the same 644 permissions, potentially exposing camera-specific credentials and settings. The exposed SHA1 admin password hash can be cracked offline to recover the plaintext password, used directly to forge authenticated admin API requests via the signature authentication weakness (GHSA-45h7-499j-7ww3), and chained with the OS command injection flaw (CVE-2025-60787) to escalate a local unprivileged user to the Motion daemon user (often root), enabling full system compromise. This issue has been fixed in version 0.44.0. | |
| Title | motionEye: World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-200 CWE-522 CWE-732 |
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