Vulnerability CVE-2016-4996


Published: 2017-07-17

Description:
discovery-debug in Foreman before 6.2 when the ssh service has been enabled on discovered nodes displays the root password in plaintext in the system journal when used to log in, which allows local users with access to the system journal to obtain the root password by reading the system journal, or by clicking Logs on the console.

Type:

CWE-255

(Credentials Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Redhat -> Satellite 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349136

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