CVE-2016-4455

LOW

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Subscription Manager < 1.17.7-1 - Information Disclosure via Weak Cache Directory Permissions

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Subscription Manager package (aka subscription-manager) before 1.17.7-1 for Candlepin uses weak permissions (755) for subscription-manager cache directories, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in the directories.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1340525
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038083
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/5
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93926
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2592.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0698.html

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 34.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (9)
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_hpc_node 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_hpc_node 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0
redhat/subscription-manager < 1.17.6-1
Published Apr 14, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026