CVE-2016-3704: Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords

High severity · published Jun 13, 2017

CVE-2016-3704

Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords

7.5

CVSS

EPSS

On KEV

Description

Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 80% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Fedora · Fedoraproject

24 · source: NVD

Pulp · Pulpproject

through 2.8.4 · source: NVD

Affected product

Fedora

Fedoraproject

All Fedora CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3704

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3704

access.redhat.com

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336

Issue Tracking

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330264

Permissions Required

https://docs.pulpproject.org/user-guide/release-notes/2.8.x.html#pulp-2-8-5

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105

lists.fedoraproject.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YM2LCC7QBRCK4LTN5EZT5OHTVAR3MYTY/