# CVE-2020-12831: An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR (aka Free Range Routing) through 7.3.1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-05-13 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR (aka Free Range Routing) through 7.3.1. When using the split-config feature, the init script creates an empty config file with world-readable default permissions, leading to a possible information leak via tools/frr.in and tools/frrcommon.sh.in. NOTE: some parties consider this user error, not a vulnerability, because the permissions are under the control of the user before any sensitive information is present in the file

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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1830805
- https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/pull/6383

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