CVE-2023-4886 (GCVE-0-2023-4886)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-03 14:24
Modified
2025-10-09 23:48
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Summary
A sensitive information exposure vulnerability was found in foreman. Contents of tomcat's server.xml file, which contain passwords to candlepin's keystore and truststore, were found to be world readable.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 0:3.5.1.24-1.el8sat   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_utils:6.13::el8
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    cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_maintenance:6.13::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_capsule:6.13::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 0:3.7.0.10-1.el8sat   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_utils:6.14::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6.14::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_capsule:6.14::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 1:3.7.0.5-1.el8sat   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_utils:6.14::el8
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