SB2017032702 - Man-in-the-middle attack in Red Hat Satellite



SB2017032702 - Man-in-the-middle attack in Red Hat Satellite

Published: March 27, 2017

Security Bulletin ID SB2017032702
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Adjecent network
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

Low 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-2667)

CWE-ID: CWE-300 - Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint ('Man-in-the-Middle')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attack.

The weakness exists in the hammer_cli command line client due to disability of SSL/TLS certificate verification by default. An adjacent attacker can use man-in-the-middle techniques to spoof a valid certificate.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.