Information disclosure in Pulp - CVE-2016-3704

 

Information disclosure in Pulp - CVE-2016-3704

Published: February 27, 2018 / Updated: March 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10741
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3704
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to unsafe use of Bash's $RANDOM that generates a NSS DB password and seed resulting in insufficient randomness. A remote attacker can potentially guess the seed used given enough time and compute resources.

Affected software

Pulp
Red Hat Satellite
Fedora
pulp-ostree
pulp-python
pulp-docker
pulp
pulp-puppet
pulp-rpm

How to mitigate CVE-2016-3704

Update to version 2.8.5.

pulp-ostree - update to 1.1.2-1.fc24
pulp-python - update to 1.1.2-1.fc24
pulp-docker - update to 2.0.2-1.fc24
pulp - update to 2.8.6-1.fc24
pulp-puppet - update to 2.8.6-2.fc24
pulp-rpm - update to 2.8.6-2.fc24

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