CVE-2016-3111

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

pulp.spec in the installation process for Pulp 2.8.3 generates the RSA key pairs used to validate messages between the pulp server and pulp consumers in a directory that is world-readable before later modifying the permissions, which might allow local users to read the generated RSA keys via reading the key files while the installation process is running.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] pulp: through 2.8.2-1

References

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/pulp.git/tree/pulp.spec#n317
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/pulp.git/tree/pulp.spec#n620
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/20/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1501
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1146522
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326251
https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/master/pulp.spec#L473-L486
https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/master/pulp.spec#L894-L903
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1837
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/pulp.git/tree/pulp.spec#n317
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/pulp.git/tree/pulp.spec#n620
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/20/1

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