CVE-2016-3704

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-3704  

Pulp makes unsafe use of Bash's $RANDOM to generate a NSS DB password and seed resulting in insufficient randomness. An attacker could potentially guess the seed used given enough time and compute resources.

Pulp makes unsafe use of Bash's $RANDOM to generate a NSS DB password and seed resulting in insufficient randomness. An attacker could potentially guess the seed used given enough time and compute resources.

Find out more about CVE-2016-3704 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 5.6
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite 6.3 (pulp) RHSA-2018:0336 2018-02-21
Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.3 (pulp) RHSA-2018:0336 2018-02-21

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 6 pulp Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Randy Barlow (RedHat) for reporting this issue.