High severity · published Jul 17, 2017
CVE-2016-4996
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,…
7.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SA
Satellite · Redhat
6.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4996
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4996
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349136
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