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, 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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.0 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2017-07-17

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-255

Affected products

• Satellite (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349136