CVE-2016-3704

pulp: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords.

Pulp en sus versiones anteriores a 2.8.5 usa la varible $RANDOM del bash de manera insegura para la generación de contraseñas.

Pulp makes unsafe use of Bash's $RANDOM to generate a NSS DB password and seed resulting in insufficient randomness. An attacker could potentially guess the seed used given enough time and compute resources.

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.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-03-30 CVE Reserved
2017-06-13 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-255: Credentials Management Errors
CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330264	2018-02-21
https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L25	2023-02-12
https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/pulp-2.8.2-1/server/bin/pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg#L97-L105	2023-02-12
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1858	2023-02-12

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336	2023-02-12
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YM2LCC7QBRCK4LTN5EZT5OHTVAR3MYTY	2023-02-12
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3704	2018-02-21

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				24 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "24"		-		Affected
Pulpproject Search vendor "Pulpproject"		Pulp Search vendor "Pulpproject" for product "Pulp"				<= 2.8.4 Search vendor "Pulpproject" for product "Pulp" and version " <= 2.8.4"		-		Affected