FKIE_CVE-2016-3704

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-06-13 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:46
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330264Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://docs.pulpproject.org/user-guide/release-notes/2.8.x.html#pulp-2-8-5Permissions Required
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YM2LCC7QBRCK4LTN5EZT5OHTVAR3MYTY/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://pulp.plan.io/issues/1858Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330264Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.pulpproject.org/user-guide/release-notes/2.8.x.html#pulp-2-8-5Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YM2LCC7QBRCK4LTN5EZT5OHTVAR3MYTY/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1858Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 24
pulpproject pulp *
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