The pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg script in Pulp before 2.8.5 allows local users to obtain the CA key.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0336 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructure. It allows for provisioning,     remote management, and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single centralized tool.

    This update provides Satellite 6.3 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Satellite server. For the full     list of new features provided by Satellite 6.3, see the Release Notes linked to in the references section.
    See the Satellite 6 Installation Guide for detailed instructions on how to install a new Satellite 6.3     environment, or the Satellite 6 Upgrading and Updating guide for detailed instructions on how to upgrade     from prior versions of Satellite 6.

    All users who require Satellite version 6.3 are advised to install these new packages.

    Security Fix(es):

    * V8: integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Zone::New (CVE-2016-1669)

    * rubygem-will_paginate: XSS vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-6459)

    * foreman: models with a 'belongs_to' association to an Organization do not verify association belongs to     that Organization (CVE-2014-8183)

    * foreman: inspect in a provisioning template exposes sensitive controller information (CVE-2016-3693)

    * pulp: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed (CVE-2016-3704)

    * foreman: privilege escalation through Organization and Locations API (CVE-2016-4451)

    * foreman: inside discovery-debug, the root password is displayed in plaintext (CVE-2016-4996)

    * foreman: Persistent XSS in Foreman remote execution plugin (CVE-2016-6319)

    * foreman: Stored XSS via organization/location with HTML in name (CVE-2016-8639)

    * katello-debug: Possible symlink attacks due to use of predictable file names (CVE-2016-9595)

    * rubygem-hammer_cli: no verification of API server's SSL certificate (CVE-2017-2667)

    * foreman: Image password leak (CVE-2017-2672)

    * pulp: Leakage of CA key in pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg (CVE-2016-3696)

    * foreman: Information disclosure in provisioning template previews (CVE-2016-4995)

    * foreman-debug: missing obfuscation of sensitive information (CVE-2016-9593)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Randy Barlow (RedHat) for reporting CVE-2016-3704 and Sander Bos for reporting     CVE-2016-3696. The CVE-2014-8183 issue was discovered by Eric Helms (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-3693 and     CVE-2016-4995 issues were discovered by Dominic Cleal (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-4451 and CVE-2016-6319     issues were discovered by Marek Huln (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-4996 issue was discovered by Thom Carlin     (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-8639 issue was discovered by Sanket Jagtap (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-9595 issue was     discovered by Evgeni Golov (Red Hat); the CVE-2017-2667 issue was discovered by Tomas Strachota (Red Hat);
    and the CVE-2016-9593 issue was discovered by Pavel Moravec (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

2.8.6 is a security and bugfix release.

Included in the list of fixed issues in 2.8.5 are two CVEs :

  - CVE-2016-3696: Leakage of CA key in pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg

  - CVE-2016-3704: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB     password and seed

Several issues with database migrations are also addressed in this release.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
107053	RHEL 7 : Satellite 6.3 (RHSA-2018:0336)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
92987	Fedora 24 : pulp / pulp-docker / pulp-ostree / pulp-puppet / pulp-python / etc (2016-4373f7d32a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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